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outsource

[aut-sawrs, -sohrs] / ˈaʊtˌsɔrs, -ˌsoʊrs /
VERB
contract out
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Qantas will outsource 850 local corporate jobs to consulting giant Accenture with most roles moving to India as the airline fast-tracks AI investment.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

"It's an example of how we are rebuilding our core competencies and developing centers of excellence in technical functions instead of continuing to outsource expertise."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Curiously, Pangram and its supporters also insist that I should outsource my judgment to AI in my capacity as features editor of the Journal’s opinion pages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Adults’ performance on a given task tends to diminish the more they outsource that job to technology, a phenomenon known as skill erosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

But they were happy to outsource it to Skadden, Arps.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Such AI savvy graduates are also in demand from companies like ArvatoConnect, an outsourced contact centre company.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

He noted that the company’s partnership this year with Google Gemini effectively outsourced model development to that platform.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

The company’s proposed solution to the difficulties of outsourcing grocery shopping seemed to involve becoming an increasingly attentive manager of one’s outsourced grocery shopping.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The family’s investment portfolio includes a London skyscraper called Tower 42, Australian real-estate company Abacus Property Group and a stake in outsourced CIO firm Partners Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Still, franchisees of two other McDonald’s restaurants, beyond Davis’s, have outsourced their drive-through ordering to Bigari in Colorado Springs.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

The company’s models were suddenly good enough that engineers had started outsourcing their coding to them and some had stopped writing code altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The company’s proposed solution to the difficulties of outsourcing grocery shopping seemed to involve becoming an increasingly attentive manager of one’s outsourced grocery shopping.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The FDA previously sent Apothecary Pharma a warning letter in December stating that the company failed to properly label the drug at its outsourcing facility in North Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

While filming the documentary about outsourcing, the TV crew and I spent an evening at the Indian-owned “24/7 Customer” call center in Bangalore.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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