employ
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Most states employ a variation of this Medicaid financing gimmick, otherwise known as provider taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
“Globally, creative professions employ over 50 million people worldwide who produce roughly $12 trillion of economic value a year.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
"We employ a straightforward stacking approach to integrate ultra-thin materials with metasurfaces, overcoming the technical challenges of direct material growth on photonic structures, and enabling further advances in valleytronics," Dr. Xing said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
As the case wends its way through the courts, the government has not yet made good on its threat to break up NCAR's various labs, which currently employ about 800 people.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
There is another way to measure the distance to the stars which the Ionians were fully capable of discovering, although, so far as we know, they did not employ it.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing employ
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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