employ
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Radev said that, following the latest incident, Bulgaria has boosted its surveillance and will redeploy troops and soldiers to the borders to detect drones and employ anti-drone measures.
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
Starting a year ago, the court itself began to employ the term biological sex in equal-protection decisions in which transgender claimants challenged laws imposing requirements for gender-affirming care, passport identification, and participation in sports.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Each added layer of complexity widens the range of assumptions and models a rating agency can employ.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Both programs will employ forward deployed engineers who work onsite with clients to plan and build AI applications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a world without peer review, texts, in order to convey trustworthiness, reliability and accuracy, had to employ literary devices.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The health and social care sector employs 4,500 people in the Clacton constituency.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In “Ring Around the Rosy”—unlike in “Circus”—Kelly employs dynamic camera movement, but it becomes part of the dance without drawing attention to itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In federal filings, the nonprofit says it runs 16 facilities in L.A. and Orange counties and employs about 170 people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The closures have fuelled concern over the future of a sector that employs more than 4.5 million people, most of them women.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Bacon, for example, who is of course familiar with the use of the word ‘evidence’ in a legal context, never employs it when discussing natural philosophy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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In 2025, Wildberries said it employed nearly 15,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Teams of human moderators once employed by all the major platforms have been gutted.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
He obtained a college degree, is employed as a drug counselor, and still finds time to give back to the people through his illustrations.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
That refers to systematic strategies employed by hedge funds and other big investors automatically buying when volatility is down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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It serves children and adults alike, coaching parents on reaching their goals, connecting them with services and even employing them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
He added: "It's curious that the same countries employing these practices are the ones criticising."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
This week it expanded its Trusted Employer Scheme that fast-tracks worker visas for companies that meet requirements including predominantly employing South Africans, investing in skills development and operating in priority sectors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Cast Away” is a masterwork of creative fiction, employing historical scholarship, biblical allusions and Jungian psychology to deliver one of the most beguiling survival stories ever written.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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