Example Sentences

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If your social-worker friend envies your designer clothes, you don’t have to ditch your Prada for rags, but it’s probably better not to festoon your outfit with your biggest diamond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Anders stacks the supporting cast with scene-stealing character actors — including Margo Martindale and Joan Cusack — while Spencer and Notaro deserve a spinoff series for their smack-talking social-worker duo.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2018

Turning his private horror into social-worker empathy, and somehow transforming that into a sci-fi/horror script, he selected nonprofessional kids, some from the area the film is set in, as his stars.

From Time • Oct. 25, 2011

Born in Lexington, Ky., Mr. Shannon had parents — a social-worker mother and professor father — who split up early on.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2010

Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker prot�g� of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target.

From Time Magazine Archive