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employ

[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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The Department for Education has so far provided funding to 25 local areas to employ coordinators to help children re-establish or develop new relationships with trusted adults.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 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

Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 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

She had heard Sourmelina employ it whenever she missed her stop.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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