How to Use work-around in a Sentence

work-around

noun
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  • Miller Lite has figured out a work-around to Dry January.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • Luckily Spaniards came up with the best work-around—and it’s called tortilla vaga.
    — Katie Button, Bon Appétit, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The change is a work-around for a piece of hardware that's become intolerably glitchy.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • Danielle had discovered a work-around and wanted to share it with Miranda.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Car Dealership Guy rounded up some of the dealerships' work-arounds.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 July 2024
  • The term-limits concept floated by some progressives is a work-around to keep from having to amend Article III.
    — The Editors, National Review, 18 July 2024
  • The council also came up with another work-around to the impending state ban on no-turn-on-reds in Indianapolis.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2023
  • The deal was expected to be a work-around on the deed restrictions because the corporation is a public entity.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • However, many work-arounds have been developed so that consumers can still reap all the benefits of these fruits without the unpleasant taste.
    — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2023
  • Watch this space: There has been speculation that Biden could find a constitutional work-around if a divided Congress can’t come to terms.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Brewer said that if Giuliani’s team had moved with more urgency on finding a work-around, dozens of migrants might not have ended up sleeping outside the city’s intake center in the East Village this winter.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • So far, his increasingly frustrated partners have found work-arounds.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, state prosecutors don’t enforce federal laws, but these attorneys general had a work-around.
    — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The arrangement was a highly unusual work-around; by law, members of Ways and Means cannot share citizens’ tax information with anyone outside the committee.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • That probably explains why liberals lately have been content to wage war with the court using political rhetoric or strategic policy work-arounds, allowing the public’s increasingly low esteem for the Supreme Court speak for itself.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Currently, Tennessee Oncology’s pharmacy has devised a complicated work-around to comply with the Stark regulation by sending daily shipments of drug to the 36 various clinic sites around the state.
    — Samyukta Mullangi, STAT, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Users pioneer emergent behaviors; hack together work-arounds, many of which lead to new features; give platforms their cultural relevance; and provide the steady flood of engagement that Silicon Valley leaders can monetize.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Mandate and style worked together to make risers proliferate, a development that was not considered discriminatory as long as buildings provided work-arounds.
    — Curbed, 19 July 2023
  • The result is not simply a substitution of private provisioning for public goods but also an attitudinal shift that pushes Indians to find work-arounds that often involve illegality and cutting corners.
    — Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2018

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