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job

[job] / dʒɒb /




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The trouble with becoming an amateur food-safety inspector is that the job is never quite finished.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The only buyers who have remained are the people that don’t have any choice because of a change in job or family situation “and the people where money doesn’t really matter,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"We have an important job to do to confirm our place in Brazil, and hopefully we can do that and give the country another special summer to remember next year."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Many high-school students soon concluded that AI would eventually be doing a lot of the coding previously associated with high-income jobs, an unease that escalated as several tech companies announced job cuts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“I just figured since I had to do your job, you owed me back.”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Many high-school students soon concluded that AI would eventually be doing a lot of the coding previously associated with high-income jobs, an unease that escalated as several tech companies announced job cuts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

They also created a jobs program for unemployed artists using government funding from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Even those with jobs and steady incomes are feeling the overall economic anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Companies around the world, primarily technology firms, have cut thousands of jobs after investing in AI, with many pointing to higher efficiencies from its adoption.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But the next day we’d arrive at Langley and come together to do our jobs all over again.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

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

He got jobbed out in that goofy angle with Cena and The Rock at Wrestlemania 32.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2017

“So that job’s jobbed, as the saying is.”

From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

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

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

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

Foad, 29, describes himself as a "jobbing comedy writer" who won a scholarship to drama school before moving into scriptwriting.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 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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