employ
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Both Ukraine and Russia employ vast numbers of unmanned systems and missiles to strike military targets on the front lines as well as strategic infrastructure deep in each other’s interiors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
The list of clubs seeking new managers, or pondering the futures of those they currently employ, could make this a non-stop summer of managerial conjecture involving those from the top right down to the bottom.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
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
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
There is another way to measure the distance to the stars which the Ionians were fully capable of discovering, although, so far as we know, they did not employ it.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing employ
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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