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employ

[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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Truckers are now having to employ ways to manage high costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Some would require companies to disclose more about how their systems work and what safeguards they employ.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

We share a similar responsibility to employ emerging technologies to inspire hearts and minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

There are a few tax-saving strategies you can employ whether you have a high income or are planning early retirement, often as part of year-end tax planning, to soften the impact of the widow’s penalty:

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

He did not begin his hunt along Hancock’s Wharf and Fish Street, where he and his story were well known and the masters would have been apt to employ him from pity.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The airline currently employs some 1,500 pilots, compared with 658 a decade earlier, company statements show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Abou Raoui said the education sector employs nearly half a million teachers and administrative staff, adding that it was the first time a strike of this kind had attracted such broad support.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Mound, 31, employs around 35 people in his Boston-based company, founded in 2020, and wants to triple his head count in five years.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Oakland-based non-profit employs about 180,000 people in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Today the company employs about 200,000 people worldwide, most of whom are complete strangers to each other.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

He said: "We employed 14 or 15 people here but we've had to let everyone go. It's a bitter pill to swallow."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The overacting is exhausting because it’s not only Iñárritu’s creative choice, but rather the methods employed by the play-within-a-movie’s director.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Recurring return on capital employed is targeted above 11% in 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In Reneé Rapp–esque wire-framed glasses, he no longer looked like the youngest billionaire in recent history but rather a precariously employed part-time DJ with a menthol-cigarette problem.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

‘No, I am a pharmacist. And John Roberts on your left is employed in the postal department of the government.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The city is employing AI-powered cameras to identify and cite violators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

With criminals employing increasingly sophisticated tactics, cases of fraud in the UK are on the rise.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I also see a clear opportunity to make the work better, specifically by carefully employing artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"Space control encapsulates the mission areas required to contest and control the space domain -- employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The principal players, meantime, rehearsed Hamlet endlessly, employing a slightly different version each day, as Mr. Shakespeare deleted or added passages to suit the fancy of the master of revels.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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