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[job] / dʒɒb /




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After working at the University of Kentucky’s public radio station, he applied for a job at NPR.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Attorney General Todd Blanche dropped by “Jesse Watters Primetime” on his first day on the job, almost certainly expecting a friendly interview.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

A prosecutor usually needs to prove that one of these people committed a criminal act while doing their job, with some intention of benefiting the company.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

The inquiry found 97% had worked while in severe pain, 47% had lost income because of their symptoms, and 28% had left a job altogether.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

She said she needed the second job to pay for all the extra stuff, like my swim club dues.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Audi said the factory will create about 4,500 jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Ramirez, who once taught snowboarding at the resort and held other jobs there, admits he feels emotionally attached to the property.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

"We have to work several jobs... to help our parents, who receive meagre pensions," said Fabiola Nikaj, a third-year university law student.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The move requires the chancellor to "flex fiscal rules", according to the paper, with Treasury arguing "it would create and support 100,000 jobs in sectors including AI, defence and green energy by 2035".

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The farm machines powered along, doing their jobs as usual, but they needed to be maintained and monitored.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

After his discharge, he jobbed around as a disc jockey and newscaster at commercial stations in North Carolina and Virginia, including WAVA-FM in Northern Virginia, before joining NPR.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

Protest that the Dodgers were jobbed and robbed and cost a chance to gain the early momentum that has been so important in this series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

They did not so much mind if the horse got wet, for the horse was jobbed; but the brougham was their own.

From Small Souls by Louis Couperus

Indeed, Liekhus is the first actor who was able to convince me that the character of Ma Rainey really is a professional, jobbing singer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Looking back, he's glad he posted and shone a light on what it can be like as a jobbing actor.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

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

Former Alliance Party leader Lord Alderdice made "a fundamentally poor judgement call" to propose reintroducing double jobbing, a party MP has said.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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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