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vb. (context idiomatic English) To be successful as a solution.
Usage examples of "work wonders".
Let us therefore believe those who both speak the truth and work wonders.
I have those sighs and I can work wonders, but when I have used them they will be gone and shall be powerless!
When for example Stoker asked why I didn't simply walk out of his prison, since I seemed able to open any door, Max's reply was that I wouldn't work wonders at the tempting of the Dean o' Flunks.
Since his fearsome willpower did sometimes work wonders, he had become accustomed to demanding the impossible.
There were rumours in the wind about this Grail years ago - the miraculous cup of such power, it is able to work wonders of its own accord.
A good night's sleep and a few high-protein meals would work wonders, but he couldn't see his pursuers letting up that long.
And if we're lucky it does, and if we aren't lucky at least the patient has had the pleasure of several weeks of close, kindly attention -- and that can also work wonders.
A word from the Admiral in the ear of the Pentagon might work wonders.
Oh, nothing like the recombinant DNA work that has been going on in the last few years outside, but a few thousand years of careful selection and breeding can work wonders.