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[em-ploi] / ɛmˈplɔɪ /




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Second, the institutions and universities that house the laboratories and employ the researchers will be responsible for the accuracy of the researchers’ risk assessment to ensure no risky work is proposed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The committee said employer NI had hit the retail and hospitality sector, which it said tends to employ young people, particularly hard.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

But because few theaters own the necessary equipment or employ full-time projectionists, coordinating a release as massive as “The Odyssey” is its own arduous journey.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

The tech specialist said the bureau had discussed how to employ it with experts across the government and weighed whether to use commercial products such as those sold by OpenAI or Anthropic.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

These Americans employ about nine thousand personal chefs, up from about four hundred just ten years ago, according to the American Personal Chef Association.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

JLR, which has its global headquarters at Whitley and manufacturing sites in Solihull, Wolverhampton, and Halewood on Merseyside, employs about 30,000 people in its UK operations, with approximately 10,000 people employed at plants overseas.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

The global company employs about 23,800 people, including many in California.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Wildberries employs tens of thousands of people across Russia, with warehouses and pickup locations all over the massive country -- reaching even remote areas of Russia.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

KPMG, the smallest of the Big four firms, employs about 35,000 people in the U.S. and has 2,100 interns this summer, of which 950 are assigned to the audit division.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Law enforcement officers generally have no personal resources to pay damages to victims of misconduct, so the city, county, or agency that employs them is typically the target of any civil action that seeks compensation.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

BP, which employed nearly 14,000 staff in total across the UK last year according to its latest figures, said its global headquarters would remain in the country.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

The group makes combat vehicles, ammunition, missile launchers and artillery systems, including the M777 howitzer that Ukraine has employed widely in its fight against Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Some 2,700 people were employed at the mall, officials said.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

“The people being removed are disproportionately working-age, employed and without criminal records — the demographic core of the workforce in construction, hospitality, agriculture, food processing, and care work,” the report read.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

He added: "It's curious that the same countries employing these practices are the ones criticising."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

On Thursday, the Philippines accused the China Coast Guard of employing water cannon and dangerous manoeuvres at Scarborough.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Many job seekers are employing artificial intelligence to rehearse asking for a higher salary by using large language models like Claude or ChatGPT to practice a mock negotiation.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

They do this by employing the tried-and-true tactics of the insurance industry of unjustifiable bureaucratic decisions, superpowered by artificial intelligence: prior authorizations, unnecessary delays, claim denials, unreasonable reimbursements.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

And likewise, two men prosper equally employing two different means, one being cautious and the other impetuous.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli




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