employ
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"The government needs to make it economically beneficial to employ young people once again."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
There are no exemptions for parents who employ their own children as models, according to the state labor department.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Plus, there are fewer shopping malls to employ the vast hordes of teens during the summer months.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
Taylor Mac’s approach was to employ a sense of irony to the best-known Glass/Ginsberg collaboration, “Wichita Vortex Sutra.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
They lean with the prevailing winds and employ every fallacy of logic in order to editorialize harmoniously with popular prejudices.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing employ
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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