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employed

[em-ploid] / ɛmˈplɔɪd /


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Often star soloists are employed, each exhibiting ego and leaving the conductor as ringmaster.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Its $500 million stake in Anthropic was later sold for $1.3 billion to a group that included Jane Street, the quant trading firm that once employed Bankman-Fried and would later invest in Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The case, which initially sought about $200 billion in damages, employed a relatively novel legal argument.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

More recently, the computer manufacturer IBM employed more than 5,000 people at its campus near Greenock.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

There are cases of ‘problematic facticity’ and others of ‘unproblematic facticity’, and the language of the fact seems to be employed first of all to deal with cases of problematic facticity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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