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employ

[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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They maintain records, employ boards and answer to shareholders, donors and customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

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

Even though you did not employ your golf buddy for financial services, you were a walking billboard for him for years, by association.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Sometimes this means all-night sessions, so that the player has a variety of tactics to employ when play is resumed the next day.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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