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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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Small businesses employ about 62.3 million people in the U.S., representing about 45.9% of private-sector employees in the country, according to the U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

That counterfeit supply chain has long been a concern for automakers, who employ teams to scour for fake parts out of reputational fear and to protect customers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Well, Mexico employ similar tactics, albeit with a 4-3-3 formation, using width and rotations to pull opponents away from passing lanes.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Among other new requirements, a business manager visa holder must employ a Japanese national or long-term resident.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Initially Root planned to employ a technique that Chicago architects had used since 1873 to support buildings of ordinary stature.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Instead, it employs algorithmically driven ads to drive business online, creators to generate interest on social media, and traditional and nontraditional press coverage to reach the masses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

In the City of Commerce, the Commerce Casino generates 40% of the city’s general fund, and employs 2,200 people.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

EDF runs Sizewell B and employs 620 staff and about 300 contractors at the plant.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

But recently, the company, which employs more than 62,000 people worldwide, has turned that focus inward.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 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

Little now remains of his family business "Bilight," which once employed more than 60 other households in La Guaira.

From Barron's Jul. 11, 2026

The long-running Telemundo drama series “El Señor de los Cielos” has landed some newfound fame ahead of its 10th and final season, thanks to an aggressive ad campaign employed throughout the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

A different report in May found that one in eight Brits under 25—nearly a million young people—aren’t either employed or in school or job training, with nearly half of them claiming a work-limiting disability.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The lawsuit claims that Liu did not return an Apple-issued work laptop and exploited a “rare, previously unknown” bug to access Apple’s shared network folders while employed at OpenAI.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

There are more than 70 cardrooms across California employing about 20,000 workers, according to the California Gaming Assn.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

India’s construction industry is booming, employing millions in an economy otherwise short of jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The university employing some of the paper’s authors quickly announced an investigation, and Nature said last week it was probing the paper, which described a potential patch for delivering medicine to internal organs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Civil penalties for business owners and those connected with employing migrants through illegal working were also being considered, she added.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Economists, meanwhile, say that the gradual improvement in the city’s economy over the course of the 1990s had the effect of employing those who might otherwise have become criminals.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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