job
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In her 25 years on the job, this was the first time Stolarz had heard of people using the riverfront for mini concerts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Fed governor Christopher Waller worried the job market was faltering when he led the case for last year’s reductions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf, and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
But a democracy also depends on making room for new voices and ensuring that those in positions of immense responsibility remain capable of carrying out the demands of the job.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
She was here after work at her regular job to make dinner, but now she’s out at her other job.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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White House spokesman Kush Desai told me by email that “the last two jobs reports” showed manufacturing job growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We’re doing very well with the Black jobs, African-American jobs,” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
After they were backed to remain in their jobs, McCullum and Stokes attempted to distance themselves from rumours of a rift that had supposedly developed in Australia.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
More than 7.5 million open jobs are available across the country, and the unemployment rate is a remarkably low 4.2% — but Talon Abernathy is one of legions of unemployed Americans struggling to find work.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
After the war ended, he obtained one of the few good jobs available to Negro men of that era—that of a mail carrier.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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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
It was headed with a heavy piece of iron, edged and tipped with the best Swedish steel, and this being jobbed against the ice, and kept constantly at work, soon splintered the shell into pieces.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
"I've got 50 credits on IMDB," says Crawford, who describes himself as "a jobbing actor".
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
He had previously appeared in several television shows as a jobbing actor - from Hollyoaks to Doctors and EastEnders.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
Peers in the House of Lords are due to debate a government plan later to bring back double jobbing.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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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