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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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“But as we look at private-sector jobs picking back up, it is broader than it had been in 2025—and it’s also very specific to industries that employ noncitizens,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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

“What sort of clods does that newspaper employ on its photographic staff? My features are barely distinguishable.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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