be employed

Example Sentences

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“Young people with college degrees are more likely to be employed, they are more likely to be earning money,” said Hershbein.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The models could be employed for harmful ends either “inadvertently or intentionally,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

Cunningham, who launched the space last year, said it enabled people to "still be employed in roles that in the past might have required presence in a city office".

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

As many as 8,000 people will live there, he said, and hundreds will be employed at the hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

He took pride in knowing the ways and mires, and was, after his fashion, content to be employed away from the eye of censure and the lash.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson