employed

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Several others described receiving early morning emails informing them they were no longer employed and would receive one month of severance pay.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

So the Armstrong team employed a series of tests involving fancy scales and gently tipping the capsule.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"Bastar is now Naxal-free," Shah told the parliament during a 90-minute speech detailing the history and tactics employed by security forces to end the insurgency.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Those workers have continued to get paid because they are not employed by the federal government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton