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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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"On staff wages alone, we employ about 200 staff, including around 120 actors."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Truckers are now having to employ ways to manage high costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They began to employ just-in-time principles, commonplace in big corporations, but unheard of in the fragmented, still old-school car repair industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Some of this conversation is self-serving strategy, since winning on “Big Brother” and similar competition shows that employ social elements requires people to display loyalty to other players until that loyalty has outlived its purpose.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021

In other words, the social procedures we have for establishing certain types of fact cannot be justified, but they are successful, they pay, and this is why we employ them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The court, housed in a shiny glass building on the outskirts of The Hague, employs around 900 staff from 100 nationalities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The site employs local contractors and businesses and pays royalties to over 3,000 people who own mineral rights, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Pollard, whose business only employs one other person, said she had received "horrendous" abuse online from disappointed guests who thought she was responsible for the fake reservations for properties that did not exist.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The company employs around 33,000, according to its website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Straddling the border of France and Switzerland, it employs three thousand people and occupies a site that is measured in square miles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

On October 3, Pyongyang test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile that Kim Yo Jong said employed unspecified artificial intelligence technology and was "capable of changing its flight orbit at a low altitude".

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

He said: "We employed 14 or 15 people here but we've had to let everyone go. It's a bitter pill to swallow."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

It employed more than 11,000 in 2011, with roughly one-third in Oklahoma City, and McClendon said it received about 500 résumés a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The overacting is exhausting because it’s not only Iñárritu’s creative choice, but rather the methods employed by the play-within-a-movie’s director.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

They told him he could wear whatever he wanted to wear, live wherever he wanted to live, and work wherever he wanted to work—and do it all while remaining employed by Deutsche Bank.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But, as Roundhill CEO Dave Mazza pointed out, most of these products have catered to day traders, by employing leverage that resets daily.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

To keep exporting oil, the kingdom’s flagship oil company Aramco has joined its regional peers in employing shuttle tankers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The city is employing AI-powered cameras to identify and cite violators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

With criminals employing increasingly sophisticated tactics, cases of fraud in the UK are on the rise.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Lord Voldemort has finally realized the dangerous access to his thoughts and feelings you have been enjoying. It appears that he is now employing Occlumency against you.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling




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