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occupation

[ok-yuh-pay-shuhn] / ˌɒk jəˈpeɪ ʃən /




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According to Ukrainian commanders, their year-long campaign has freed 16 settlements from Russian occupation.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Life in Oleshky, located just across the Dnipro River from Kherson, has been difficult for much of the occupation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Maxime Novikov, a 43-year-old historian on the tour, said he was "pleasantly surprised that part of the new museum is dedicated to Russian territories that were under Nazi occupation."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s likely because Asco’s early performances, as the art historian and curator C. Ondine Chavoya points out in the film, emphasized procession, mobility, mobilization and occupation, marking sites of political violence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The former German capital sat deep inside the zone of Soviet occupation, in the eastern part of Germany.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

According to Jung, about 11% of UK jobs are "highly exposed" to being replaced by AI chatbots, "led by secretarial and administrative occupations".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

If working-class voters are those working low-wage jobs, then they are already majority women, who occupy two-thirds of the 40 lowest-paid occupations.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

The occupations most exposed to AI’s reach shrank by 0.2% year over year in June, according to research from ADP and Stanford University.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Within the U.S., they found that AI is being used across a large number of occupations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Very few occupations in the nineteenth century were open to women, fewer still to abandoned mothers.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock


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