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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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Your mother has dementia, and you are making a lot of extra work for yourself by trying to employ the power of attorney to add a beneficiary to this paper stock certificate.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

The Dodgers’ revenue advantage remains significant, not just because of their SportsNet LA deal but because they fill the largest stadium in the majors almost every night and employ Shohei Ohtani.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

But it also can employ dubious proxies like keyboard strokes and how often your computer screen goes into sleep mode.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

In 1983, the Greater London Council Grants Committee awarded one of his projects enough money to rent an office and employ staff.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Dimarion placed a hand over his heart, and said, his voice laced with venom, “I had a source in the employ of a certain captain we know...a fine woman dear to both our hearts.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Industry estimates suggest the sector employs around 30,000 people, down sharply from hundreds of thousands three decades ago.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The Transformation of Industry unit employs 17,000 workers and reported 5.7 billion euros in revenue, equivalent to $6.66 billion, with an 11.3% profit margin in its 2025 fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

CRP Technology, which employs around 300 people, has been building robot arms for nine years.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

It opened a fashion design office in New York City that now employs around 165 designers, brand managers and digital merchants.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Some of the most fascinating control work in European forests employs the forest red ant as an aggressive insect predator — a species which, unfortunately, does not occur in North America.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Often star soloists are employed, each exhibiting ego and leaving the conductor as ringmaster.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

To develop Shaheds, Iran employed a design pioneered by the U.S. and West Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The case, which initially sought about $200 billion in damages, employed a relatively novel legal argument.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Writers who remained employed on this hollowed-out web were increasingly left wondering where all their favorite haunts had gone.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Lees & Co—Manchester’s oldest brewery and owner of Founder’s Hall—has found employing youngsters increasingly difficult in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Those who trust these writers’ capabilities with using comic book properties as springboards to examine thornier issues can probably deduce that “Lanterns” is employing it for a specific reason.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

The Long Beach Police Department also installed the Rumbler into patrol vehicles in 2009, employing the system in most units until 2023.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Raleigh was founded in Nottingham in 1887 and at one stage was the biggest bicycle maker in the world, employing about 8,000 people at its peak.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Bribes perhaps, or a rumor that any inn employing a certain red-haired musician would be losing the business of a large number of wealthy noble customers.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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