1. at work - used to describe a force or process which is having a particular Influence or effect
• It is important to understand the powerful economic and sociai at work behind our own actions.
• The report suggested that the same trend was at work in polltics.
2. In a way - when you say that something is true in a way, you mean that although a statement is not completely true, It is true to a limited extent or in certain aspects.
• In a way, I suppose I'm frightened of falling.
• In a way, two approaches of capitalism ad socialism are not balanced ones for any societies.