How to Use workup in a Sentence

workup

1 of 2 noun
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  • Hiller flew out to Santa Rosa to get a detailed workup on the left tackle.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2020
  • On his heart care: Knight: The workup of his cardiac is ongoing.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • How many of the 20% of breast cancers are going to be in that one of five women who elect to not get the further workup?
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
  • After a medical workup, the dogs are placed in foster homes.
    — Meg Dunn, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • To see if early heart disease may be a factor in your ED, Bankstein suggests a full workup at the doctor.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Doctors in starched white coats walk the hallways at a clip, darting to and from consultations and workups with clients.
    — Jessica Chia, Allure, 25 Dec. 2019
  • After a 20-minute workup, the buck was injected with a reversal drug.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The severity of the initial illness helps determine what the cardiac workup will be.
    — Giana Han, al, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The nightmares awoke her from sleep with acute chest pain, necessitating a cardiac workup.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 19 Jan. 2017
  • People with these kinds of symptoms, Waxman said, need to come in for an immediate workup, even if most will not turn out to be heart attacks.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Any athlete testing positive must go through a full cardiac workup before they are cleared.
    — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
  • But most of the time people will get better on their own, without intervention or extensive workup.
    — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • Further workup revealed the issue: Aliyah had new-onset diabetes.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Over three to four hours, these people went through an exhaustive medical workup by a variety of specialists.
    — Melba Newsome, Scientific American, 30 June 2021
  • The rest of the infectious disease workup, including testing for malaria, was negative.
    — Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2020
  • As part of the standard child abuse workup, Petska ordered a slew of additional tests, including full body X-rays and labs to screen for bleeding disorders that could lead to easy bruising.
    — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Don did all the psychological workup for gender reassignment during that time, working out of our house.
    — Roberta Brown, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • And in contrast to competing medical workups that pitch whole genome sequencing, Q Bio decided to analyze a panel of just 147 genes.
    — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 20 Feb. 2020
  • This slow-going approach wasn’t my preference, but my original plan—to admit him to the hospital and pursue an aggressive workup—had been vetoed by the patient.
    — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2010
  • While these kinds of examples are dramatic, the reality is that most kids don’t need an extremely-rapid genetic workup.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Some health-care professionals worry that mindfulness is being pushed as a way of dealing with chronic pain in lieu of medical workups to find the underlying cause.
    — Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • Each dog is given a physical workup including blood work to ensure there are no underlying health issues.
    — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Colleagues then took the kittens a short distance away and did a workup — which involves a physical exam, where body measurements are recorded, and attaching an ear tag — before the mother returned.
    — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The remarks that follow are a glimpse at a negotiator’s ongoing notebook, not an authoritative workup on the topic.
    — Jack Nasher, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Instead, the process could result in a lot of worry for asymptomatic patients and force the patient and doctor to undergo more workups without yielding anything significant.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • This research suggests that doctors should do genetic workups in puzzling cases of serious infection, Meyts says.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
  • To ignore someone who knows a patient's history, wishes, past workups, medicine failures and overall status is truly not optimal medical care.
    — Andy Lazris, Columbia Flier, 31 Aug. 2017
  • A full diagnostic workup revealed nothing, so genetics experts in Boston and the Bigelows’ hometown of Portland, Maine, recommended sequencing all of her genes.
    — Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
  • The puzzling intractability had triggered a soup-to-nuts workup: abdominal CAT scan, diagnostic testing for stool pathogens and a lab workup that measured everything but copper levels.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Additionally, after isolation is complete and any symptoms have resolved, a full cardiac workup of tests are conducted.
    — oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2020
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work up

2 of 2 verb
  • Start at the sternum and work up near the base of the neck.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Start at the bottom, in the center, and work up and out.
    — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The brand claims these can work up to 10 hours or more when fully charged.
    — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The film has been non-stop for years, and the team worked up until the last minute to perfect it.
    — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • Can any of us work up the energy to care or change course?
    — Nicole Chung, Time, 6 Apr. 2021
  • To see the view without working up a sweat, the S10 train from Zurich’s main station will take you most of the way up.
    — Noele Illien, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Impressed by the latter, Franklin asked him to work up a film treatment.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • There’s even a rowing machine tucked in the ADU, for when the desire to work up a sweat arises.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The kids would eat pancakes and drink hot chocolate in his presence and work up their courage.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Start with lower weights so that you can get used to the position, then work up from there.
    — Kirk Charles, Men's Health, 24 May 2022
  • To have somewhere that’s committed to putting my work up in New York City is huge.
    — Liz Appel, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • For that matter, Texas could work up a bigger spite against Baylor the last decade or so.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Those concerned about this side effect should start with small amounts and work up to a dosage that works best for their needs.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The contract states that the traffic engineer will work up to two days per week for six months.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2024
  • For those who tend to work up quite the sweat, a sweatband is probably a better fit.
    — Tim Kohut, BGR, 2 July 2021
  • Mills accepted, and, after six months of homework, Huang worked up the courage to ask her out on a date.
    — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Part time - no more than 28 hours per week; Summer Camp Counselors: Can work up to 40 hours per week.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Flinging hatchets and paint are good ways to work up an appetite, eh?
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Learn using only your body weight, then work up to working with a load.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 July 2023
  • The kids will work up an appetite by searching near and far for turkeys and pumpkins.
    — Carly Breit, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Once everything is evenly scratched up, go to the next-highest grit, and work up from there.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • Short or long, a good bike ride can work up a powerful appetite.
    — Flip Putthoff, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Start with a quarter mile and gradually work up to a mile.
    — Michael Easter, Men's Health, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Start with a neutral and work up to a bold boysenberry.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 June 2021
  • Brown is 6-foot-3 and work up to being a starter in the Mississippi State game last season.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Tolliver and the gang weren’t always out to work up a sweat solving the riddles and injustices of the world.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • According to Brightown, the lights can work up to 10 hours after 4 to 6 hours of charging by sunlight.
    — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Children have worked in the fields since the time of slavery, and children as young as 12 in the United States can still work up to 40 hours a week in the fields, legally.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • At one point, employees were working up to 80 hours per week, Rash said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • The bait is made to work up to three months and each bottle contains enough for up to six treatments, depending on the size of your home.
    — Anna Halkidis, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2023

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