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Work out
Work out can mean calculate an amount, find an answer through thought, exercise, or develop in a particular way. The surrounding sentence tells you which meaning fits.
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Turn out
'Turn out' functions as a phrasal verb with three primary everyday uses. First, it describes how an activity, project, or event finally ends, typically paired with adverbs like 'well', 'badly', or 'fine'. Second, it reveals a newly discovered identity or truth, using 'turn out to be' or 'it turns out that'. Third, it describes attendance, showing that people gathered to participate in an organized public activity or community event.
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Sign up
Sign up means to officially register your intention to join an activity, group, or service, or to agree to complete a volunteer task. It indicates an intention to participate rather than attendance, completed work, or payment.
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Run into
Run into has four common meanings: meeting an acquaintance by chance, encountering an obstacle or difficulty, physically colliding with an object or vehicle, and reaching a large total amount.
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Pull out
Pull out describes leaving an agreement or group project, removing a person or item from a situation, or moving a vehicle away from the curb into traffic.
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Video · 7 min Make up
Make up means to invent an explanation or story, to become friendly again after an argument, to form a whole from smaller parts, or to complete missed work or time later.
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Get together
Get together means meeting and spending time with other people, usually socially and often by arrangement. Informally, when used about two people with explicit relationship clues, it can also mean beginning a romantic partnership.
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Get out of something
To get out of something means to avoid an expected obligation, duty, or task so that you do not have to do it. When expanded to 'get out of the habit of doing something', it means to stop a repeated behavior or regular routine over time.
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Chip away
Chip away literally describes breaking off tiny pieces from a hard surface with repeated small strikes. In everyday figurative use, chip away at describes making steady progress against a large task or slowly diminishing a quantity, feeling, or barrier through small efforts over time. It shows that the target is diminishing, but it does not claim that the work is finished.
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Catch up
Catch up describes closing a distance or gap. It means reaching someone ahead of you, reaching an expected level of skill or progress, completing tasks you missed, or sharing recent personal news with someone after time apart.
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Burn out
Burn out means to reach deep physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion from prolonged work, to stop burning naturally because combustible fuel is depleted, or to fail mechanically from internal electrical heat damage.
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Video · 8 min Break up
Break up expresses four main ideas in modern English. First, it describes romantic partners ending a relationship. Second, it describes people in a gathering dispersing or an organizer ending an event. Third, it means dividing something larger into smaller pieces or groups. Fourth, it describes an unstable voice or video signal that cuts out during a conversation.
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Back down
Back down means to stop demanding something, stop defending an argument, or withdraw a claim after opposition. It requires an earlier disagreement where at least one person insisted on their view.
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Advice that changed meaning
Advice is guidance or a suggestion about what someone should do in a specific situation. When you receive advice, you often remember the speaker's exact words for a long time. However, the way you understand those words can develop as you face real challenges at work. A phrase that seems simple when you first hear it can take on a deeper, more practical meaning once you gain practical experience.
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First-day onboarding tasks
Mandatory workplace instructions communicate tasks that an employee must finish to obtain access, meet regulatory standards, or begin work duties. Optional invitations give employees the freedom to participate without penalty if their schedule or workload permits.
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Meeting times across time zones
Pushing a meeting back moves it to a later hour. A single event takes place at three in the afternoon in London and nine in the morning in Chicago.
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Noise complaint
A noise complaint describes how an unwanted sound interrupts daily life, such as study, work, or sleep. A compromise is an agreement where both sides change their plans slightly so everyone gets a workable result.
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Course feedback
Course evaluations give instructors practical information about what happens during a lesson. A student can appreciate a cooking teacher's clear instructions while still struggling to read a recipe sheet with tiny print across a busy kitchen counter. Accurate listening requires sorting remarks into three main categories: praise for successful methods, identification of a practical difficulty, and a constructive suggestion for upcoming classes.
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