job
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The best part of the job, bar none: hearing from WSJ readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I'm taking this job even though I've seen how you've treated Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Whether we had those uniforms on or off, we were accountable teammates, trusting each other to do our job flawlessly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
If the restructuring went ahead, it would be the largest in the history of the automotive industry, eclipsing the 50,000 job cuts General Motors made after it declared bankruptcy in 2009.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was a super super super important job.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The Swiss giant has said it is cutting around 16,000 jobs, has sold off brands and is reorganizing the business around four main categories–coffee, pet care, nutrition and food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The World Bank's new five-year plan agreed with China focuses on delivering economic growth while also providing better jobs, social resilience and a low-carbon economy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
"We need to make sure that the industrial benefits, the jobs benefits are well told so people understand this is money well spent," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Private companies added a net 98,000 jobs in June after adding 122,000 jobs in May, ADP said, compared with economists’ expectations of 110,000 new private-sector jobs added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
All the men were farmers or fishermen; there were no other jobs.
From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis
Then it may end up in an off-price channel or being jobbed out to another country, et cetera.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022
College football fans watching the game believed Tennessee got jobbed.
From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2021
The Dodgers may have been jobbed out of two World Series championships, having lost to the Astros in seven games in 2017 and the Red Sox in five games in 2018.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
He got jobbed out in that goofy angle with Cena and The Rock at Wrestlemania 32.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2017
"I quite love Beatrice," he said to his mother in the jobbed brougham with the high stepping, but slow moving, horse which conveyed them to Queen Anne's Mansions after the dinner.
From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe
"I've got 50 credits on IMDB," says Crawford, who describes himself as "a jobbing actor".
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
Youdale, who moved to London from Billingham, on Teesside, in the mid-1980s to study dance, remembers working as a "jobbing actor" and choreographer.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024
He had previously appeared in several television shows as a jobbing actor - from Hollyoaks to Doctors and EastEnders.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Foad, 29, describes himself as a "jobbing comedy writer" who won a scholarship to drama school before moving into scriptwriting.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022
His musical efflorescence was tragically brief, but this is the man who turned the chord-strumming, jobbing electric guitar into a high-wire, virtuoso lead instrument, from also-ran to star turn.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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