employ

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The Southern California operation will employ more than 200 people by next year, adding hundreds more in the coming years, executives said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Thank goodness that these tech-founder podcasters who are now in Altman’s employ will still be fair when talking about OpenAI.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

Together, these leading retail, hotel, meat-processing and food-service companies employ about 6.7 million Americans — one in every 25 U.S. workers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

They employ an average of about a dollar of debt for every dollar of investor equity.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

In other words, the social procedures we have for establishing certain types of fact cannot be justified, but they are successful, they pay, and this is why we employ them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton