employ
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That’s why many award shows employ comedians as their ringmasters, as last year’s Emmys producers did by tapping Nate Bargatze.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Several parents who employ house managers said they wish all families could afford one; that the benefit be seen as normal and not a luxury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The new private investment will help with renewable energy and create "new industries that are likely to employ future generations", Mookhey says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Staff expenses look like the bigger problem, until you remember that most midsize to large companies already employ the people who run their own data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 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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Now the company employs more than 300 females across Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
That’s how much of my time it was taking before,” said David Rudy, talent manager, producer and father of 6-month-old identical twin boys who employs a house manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
It employs 169 people in total, including more than 45 full-time lobbyists.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Allocators may require higher yields before moving wholesale into bonds, regardless of what measures the Treasury Department employs in the market to cap yields.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Today the company employs about 200,000 people worldwide, most of whom are complete strangers to each other.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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“We’ve seen the oil majors effectively reduce their exposure to that sector because the returns on actual capital employed have been poor,” Gelder said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
A May 2026 PwC study estimated the industry directly employed more than 1 million Americans in 2024 and supported 5.5 million jobs across the broader economy, up 17% in a single year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"We measured outcomes like whether someone became employed or unemployed, whether they got married or divorced, and standard indicators of mental health," he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
"The organisation appointed had actually been employed to do mediation work on behalf of the Orange Order," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Exactly the same relativist approach is employed with regard to facts as to theories; indeed, the two are often indistinguishable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Space control encapsulates the mission areas required to contest and control the space domain -- employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities," the statement said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
That’s the benefit of employing the easiest lyrics in the world to blast an emotional message into the sky.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
These hunters, a unit of up to a dozen trained professionals employing rifles and bound by state regulations, are expected to kill the island’s non-native mule deer on the ground over four to five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Volkswagen is bloated, employing many more workers per car produced than competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
In his own games Bobby began employing some of Lipnitsky’s suggestions and adopted a plan called the Lipnitsky Attack when playing against the Sicilian Defense.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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