contracted

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Recall also the Covid-era glorification of “quiet quitting”—in which employees simply stop doing the jobs they were contracted to do—and the scores of think pieces claiming that Americans’ “work-life balance” is less than optimal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

CoreWeave’s fundraising initiatives will help the company fulfill contracted demand from its customers, which has soared in recent weeks.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

ICE has contracted with the facilities as the agency has taken in record numbers of detainees.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Her family believe both children contracted it from injections with contaminated needles during routine medical treatment at a government hospital in Taunsa, in the province of Punjab, Pakistan.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Followed by dozens of masons and carpenters, as if she had contracted her husband’s hallucinating fever, Úrsula fixed the position of light and heat and distributed space without the least sense of its limitations.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez