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outsource

[out-sawrs, ‑-sohrs] / ˈaʊtˌsɔrs, ‑ˌsoʊrs /
VERB
contract out
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But generative AI has vastly broadened the range of tasks that humans can successfully outsource.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

It warned: "Councils cannot outsource their safeguarding duty."

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Three of his colleagues concluded the Fed couldn’t outsource that work any longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The company has chosen to outsource a portion of its AI capabilities through a partnership with Google Gemini.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

So we developed a software product called VTR— Virtual Tax Room—to enable these medium-size accounting firms to easily outsource tax returns.”

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

Pam Brown from Durham was an NHS patient who underwent a mastectomy in 2022 at Spire Hospital in Washington, where one of the outsourced private clinics was based.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Right now we’re having to consider some outsourced storage,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Because springing for and maintaining a fleet of its own is costly, ICE has historically outsourced its deportation flights to private companies or used military and Coast Guard vessels.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The alternative to outsourced childcare has a few invisible price tags, however.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

In a decade, you will assume that your accountant has outsourced the basic preparation of your tax returns—if not more.

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

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

Ludlam told the inquest that by the end of 2022 the health board was no longer dealing with a backlog in part due to outsourcing, which he said they were still using today.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Or maybe he’s just super tech savvy and enough of an expert that outsourcing the work is just fine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

By outsourcing my habits to an app, I felt like I was more and more disembodied from my own well-being.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

I have just learned that in many small and some medium-size hospitals in the US, radiologists are outsourcing reading of CAT scans to doctors in India and Australia!!!

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



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