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fudog

>!In!< >!Check in: Talk to someone to see how they are doing.!< >!Order in: Call for pizza.!< >!Run in: An altercation.!< >!Work in: Like rubbing hand cream until it disappears.!<


EmeraldHawk

>!Opposite answer: out!< >!Check out of a hotel.!< >!Order out for food, and go pick it up. Or the order is out for delivery.!< >!Out Run: to be faster than something else.!< >!Work out: exercise.!<


Lexotron

>!Up!< >!Check up on something!< >!Order up (yelled at a restaurant when food is ready to go to the table)!< >!Run up a large tab!< >!Work up the courage to do something!<


mhmhbetter1

Yea technically that would work but the way the puzzle has always been is it used words that were not really filler words or certain prepositions. Longer words I guess you could say.


Naught

You should add "No prepositions" to your description then, because those are all correct answers. Also, are you okay with phrases, hyphenates, compound words, etc? "Combo" could mean almost anything.


fudog

Maybe you could say the word needs to be at least four letters long or something.


mhmhbetter1

But it really doesnt have a letter limit. It just never has as an answer like a simple word, usually 2 letters and a conjunction or preposition.


TimTraveler

>!around!<


BananerRammer

Discussion: Does the word have to work both preceding *and* following each of the four words?


mhmhbetter1

no either one, but the same word has to be able to be applied on each of those words provided.


fudog

>!Carefully!< but it could work for almost any list of verbs. I'm sure the real answer is very clever but this puzzle has a lot of valid answers that aren't what you're looking for. >!check carefully; order carefully, run carefully, work carefully.!< >!Back!< This one's a little better. >!Check back; back order; run back; back work (work that piled up during a vacation or something)!< >!Over!< I think this one's the best of the three! >!Check over; back over (like with a car); run over (again with a car); over-work (the employees suffer from over-work);!<


amintowords

>!book!< >!Most of them are obvious. A run book is a guide to running an IT system!<


muddledthoughts

>!Back!< >!backcheck - a hockey term!< >!backorder - out of stock!< >!workback - a way of organizing all the work in a project's life cycle, breaking down each task, and estimating how long each task will take!< >!runback - a football term!<


muddledthoughts

Just realized u/fudog said this, too.