employ
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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
"We have to make it easier for business to employ young people and for businesses to take that risk on someone," Streeting told the Sunday Times.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
The local nonprofit Healing Urban Barrios agreed to train and employ Alvarez in its gang intervention program following his release from prison, according to the Justice Department.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
There are no exemptions for parents who employ their own children as models, according to the state labor department.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
He was a decent man who had been many years in the employ of the Company—not the kind of man who could be bribed to assist in a crime.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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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