bench work
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Be nice, be conciliatory to those on the other bench, work together and make life better for the poor people in the backstreets."
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
He no longer does bench work, but he interacts with scientists who do.
From Nature ● Nov. 6, 2018
Turned out, one of the recurrent donors to the park, who had adopted 18 benches and given them as gifts, had gotten to know and admire Lou Young from watching him do his bench work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
Although he misses bench work, Cunningham is still involved in academia through an adjunct position teaching molecular biology at Howard University in Washington DC.
From Nature ● Jan. 5, 2011
Machine shops doing principally lathe work as a matter of course use a larger percentage of their contracted power than shops doing lathe and bench work with the same hands.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various
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