employ
Example Sentences
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Once operational, data centers employ a much smaller number of employees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
The Department for Education has so far provided funding to 25 local areas to employ coordinators to help children re-establish or develop new relationships with trusted adults.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 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
In a world without peer review, texts, in order to convey trustworthiness, reliability and accuracy, had to employ literary devices.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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