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job

[job] / dʒɒb /




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"I had some offers," Benitez said, having recently been linked with the Scotland job.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Landscape designer Sebastian Trujillo negotiated an informal agreement to share content on the job after being hired by filmmaker Fabiola Beracasa Beckman to work on her Greenwich Village townhouse, Florsheim writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

“But we can still bring the sound mixing, the editing, the scoring, the visual effects — all of those incredible job opportunities to California.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

A freelancer by day, I’d appreciated teaching’s miraculous equation: I did my job, they paid me the first of every month.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Our job was not in itself complicated: Answer the line, match the code name to a number, insert the right plug into the right jack, connect the telephone call.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

CAA’s chief executive warned state leaders that a corporate tax credit cap threatens the state’s film and TV jobs program.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

McCabe believes the piecemeal shedding of jobs has not attracted the same political attention as other high-profile closures.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

A few years ago, as the president of the Investment Banking Academy at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Kolb helped fellow students apply for banking jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

California generated about 12,000 post-production jobs last year.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Tickled Pink demonstrated the process using her own card, and the screen showcased zero print jobs ready.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

Eakes, Sorsa and Dickey balance subtle humor with striking authenticity, whereas Garrison is a full-blown comic diva who seems to have jobbed in from one of Shore’s more farcical early plays — a tonal irregularity.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2020

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

"You've been jobbed like you was a baby," said Glass.

From Going Some by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Frustrated, Layla began speaking about her experience with other former clients and Alexa Morden, host of the 98% Club, a podcast which explores the reality of work for jobbing actors.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2024

He had previously appeared in several television shows as a jobbing actor - from Hollyoaks to Doctors and EastEnders.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2023

Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry told BBC's Sunday Politics programme that the move was "a backwards step" and that Lord Alderdice had made "a fundamentally poor judgement call" to propose the reintroduction of double jobbing.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2022

In his letter, Lord Caine said he was opposed to the possibility of double jobbing remaining indefinitely so the amendment was reworked with a time limit.

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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