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working out

Noun

Meaning

developing in intricate and painstaking detail

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Augustine of Hippo

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted. Alexander McCall Smith

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent. William Wordsworth

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient. Henry Miller

So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh. Dave Matthews

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