Quiet
Quiet verb - To become still and orderly.
Work on
Work on verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.
Both terms in one sentence
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Slave children, forced to work on inhuman conditions, being fed just once a week and forced to drink alcohol to keep them quiet and obedient.
Source: Series / 31 Minutos -
After graduating, a friend got him a job at a patent office, a quiet post that gave him plenty of unsupervised free time to work on physics.
Source: Useful Notes / Albert Einstein - Then it turns out the Good Doctor isn't a Wild Card at all, because he's not a Player and doesn't even appear to know about the Game; he just came to the village to work on his experiment in peace and quiet.
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