Taking and Working

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Taking adjective - Very pleasing to look at.

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Working and taking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Taking".

Nearby Words: take, taken, taker, takingly

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Taking and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Taking" instead an adjective "Working".

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

A spouse who is constantly working late/taking long business trips, or always going out with their friends rather than staying home with their wife/husband (or taking them out instead).

Source: Good Adultery, Bad Adultery
Though it was left ambiguous as to whether he was using poisoned Holy Water (the teams working theory) or if the victims were all actually possessed by "taking you with me" demons.

Source: Hollywood Exorcism
Taking the drug "shere" will prevent a probe from working long enough for the brain cells to die and become unreadable.

Source: Interrogating the Dead

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