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The term “green shoe” comes from the first company to employ a version of this method years ago, a shoemaker that was a predecessor to Stride Rite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

“Globally, creative professions employ over 50 million people worldwide who produce roughly $12 trillion of economic value a year.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

"We employ a straightforward stacking approach to integrate ultra-thin materials with metasurfaces, overcoming the technical challenges of direct material growth on photonic structures, and enabling further advances in valleytronics," Dr. Xing said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

As the case wends its way through the courts, the government has not yet made good on its threat to break up NCAR's various labs, which currently employ about 800 people.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

“Undoubtedly,” replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, “there is meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen