contracted

Example Sentences

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Unai Emery has no immediate contract worries, with all of his first-team squad contracted until at least 2027.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

“One was a phone interview with an agency contracted with Meta that offered me my previous job—as a contractor for half the pay and no benefits. I declined it,” she said.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Blue Origin has been contracted by multiple companies, including AST SpaceMobile, to launch their payloads into orbit.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

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

After this, Peale took over the doctoring chores himself even though he too eventually contracted a mild case of yellow fever.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy