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employ

[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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The Iowa mill will employ about 1,700 when completed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

"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

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

“There can be no justification or military grounds for refusing any further to employ what promises to be our most effective weapon,” Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz declared.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

His small business currently employs four people but he says there is a possibility he will expand as demand grows.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The cyber-attack caused JLR, which employs 43,000 people globally, to shut down production for more than a month.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The nearby Irkutsk Aluminum Factory, which is located in the same town and employs more than 2,000 people, has imposed a masking mandate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

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

During a "counter-summit" held a few days before Wednesday's gathering, he pointed out that the centres only employed 3,300 people in total.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Reports that a woman employed at a plague research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died from the disease has spiked online interest in possible treatments for the illness in North America.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 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

Recurring return on capital employed is targeted above 11% in 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Arguably, Mauer underestimates the scope of the challenge by focusing narrowly on the prison system, rather than counting all of the people employed in the criminal justice bureaucracy.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Amazon led the list, employing more than 13,000 H-1 B visa holders; Adobe had 777 approved applications.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The company employing Anojan notified the authorities in Saudi Arabia who registered a case against him, according to Hamsidan.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The aerospace and healthcare industries are among the region’s largest employers, with companies such as Boeing employing thousands of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Between Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other secret labs around the country, the Manhattan Project was employing more than 300,000 people.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin




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