field work
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The employees were completing routine field work near the picturesque waters of Gumboot Lake when things took a terrifying turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
UN staff have been largely unable to carry out field work and UN agencies are having difficulty retrieving aid shipments from Havana's airports.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Many of us have completed advanced training; four in five have a master’s degree, with hundreds of hours of field work as part of the requirement.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
“He was quite up himself… so he wasn't a particularly popular person, but he was reasonably good at his job,” says John Pomeroy, who organised research field work for Crocodylus Park.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2024
I got back to my old routine of doing chores and field work.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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