work through

verb

1. (tr, adverb) psychol to resolve (a problem, esp an emotional one), by thinking about it repeatedly and hence lessening its intensity either by gaining insight or by becoming bored by it

Example Sentences

Mr Rees said: "We have to get up very early and we are working through the whole day to get to what we have here now."

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He says developers can’t afford to see projects through to fruition if it’s going to take years of working through red tape.

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But he wasn’t the only playwright working through themes of family and masculinity, and Dowling only glancingly mentions compatriots like David Mamet and August Wilson.

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"Please come and sit down with us so that we can work through this together to try and alleviate some of this suffering."

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AFP journalists saw police and forensics teams, some wearing white overalls, working through the night at the station where the train had stopped.

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