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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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Gottheimer encouraged Anthropic competitors including OpenAI to employ a similar approach and let users of their most powerful cyber models share threat information.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

More than 150 law enforcement departments throughout the nation now employ at least one Grappler.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Sheerness Port - which imports large numbers of cars and fresh fruit - does employ hundreds of people, yet it once employed thousands.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

The Pentagon said its agreements allow it to employ those companies’ technologies for “lawful operational use.”

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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