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work out
verb
- tr to achieve or accomplish by effort
- tr to solve or find out by reasoning or calculation
to work out an answer
to work out a sum
- tr to devise or formulate
to work out a plan
- intr to prove satisfactory or effective
did your plan work out?
- intr to happen as specified
it all worked out well
- intr to take part in physical exercise, as in training
- tr to remove all the mineral in (a mine, body of ore, etc) that can be profitably exploited
- intr; often foll by to or at to reach a total
your bill works out at a pound
- informal.tr to understand the real nature of
I shall never work you out
noun
- a session of physical exercise, esp for training or practice
Example Sentences
Despite the retirement announcement, it has not stopped rivals calling Fury out, or fans speculating about a potential comeback following an appearance of him working out in his personal gym.
Having successfully created the environment needed to grow teeth, scientists now need to work out how to get them from the lab to a patient's mouth.
The government hasn't yet shared, or hasn't yet worked out, what the potential cost of taking on the plant in the long term might be.
"There's been times where we've wanted to give up, but we said to ourselves 'we'll keep going as long as we can pay the rent' and now we have no regrets as its worked out".
Ensuring that you won’t have to work out any of the series’ themes for yourself, narrator Coop sounds a little like Joan Didion.
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