job
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Swinney would not be drawn on the scale of job losses but said the NHS's no compulsory redundancy commitment was an "essential part" of the reforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Number of U.S. job openings in July, up from 7.2 million in June, according to the Labor Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But I do feel empathy for the people on set that have a really important job and don’t get the support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Anfield needs some excitement after a below-par campaign last season which ultimately saw Slot lose the support of the fanbase and his job, a year after winning the Premier League.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Kind of comes with the job, you know.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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He said there was evidence that lower VAT rates in the Republic had helped protect businesses and jobs.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Initially outraged, union leaders eventually agreed to capacity and workforce cuts in exchange for a fresh jobs guarantee for the survivors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Meta boss Zuckerberg said the buildout would require "hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of jobs" in the skilled trades, "just because the demand for data centers is immense."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
But Mom said that as much as she loved having Bat at work with her, all his questions sometimes kept the vet techs from doing their jobs.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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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
The play is rife with Williams’ flamboyant aphorisms, but the other characters all sound as if they were jobbed in from a daytime soap opera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
"I quite love Beatrice," he said to his mother in the jobbed brougham with the high stepping, but slow moving, horse which conveyed them to Queen Anne's Mansions after the dinner.
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
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
Many legendary leaders have successfully paired public praise with private criticism, and listening to McCullum in particular can inspire even a jobbing journalist to take on the world.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
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
Double jobbing, also known as dual mandates, was banned in Northern Ireland in 2016, when a number of MPs were forced to give up their seats in the assembly.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 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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