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occupation

[ok-yuh-pay-shuhn] / ˌɒk jəˈpeɪ ʃən /




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The researchers also found a strong connection between wasp occupation and human-altered environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

Successive U.S.-Danish agreements, dating back to the early months of Nazi Germany’s occupation of Denmark, have given the American military broad rights to station troops, build bases, operate ports or fly warplanes in Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"As Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation," he wrote, also noting that Sheeran was a friend who "has changed my life."

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Unlike Scheveningen, which had been a regular Dutch prison, Vught had been constructed by the occupation especially as a concentration camp for political prisoners.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Free African-Americans also worked in a wide variety of occupations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 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

Many young workers, in particular, will need to take jobs at less prestigious companies or choose lower-level occupations that were not their first choice, simply to get their foot in the door.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

The International Labour Organization estimates that 12.7 million Filipinos - more than one in four workers - are employed in occupations exposed to generative AI, the highest share in South East Asia.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

They were like soldiers of the resistance in later occupations.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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