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[gig] / gɪg /


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She eventually landed a gig as a management trainee at the city administrative officer’s office, writing a 2015 report on how Los Angeles was dealing with a burgeoning homeless crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Logistics companies and retailers are relying on technology to make new hires faster, as well as using gig workers and flexible scheduling to bring on workers as needed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Sheeran then addressed the controversy during the start of a gig in Philadelphia.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Then there’s the unpleasant economic reality of gig work.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

But Emma is ignoring me and making plans with Melanie and Hannah to come back tomorrow night for our first ever gig.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

So while “Goin’ Local” is technically Kaye’s first solo record, back in 1984, there was another project, the Lenny Kaye Connection, a quartet which gigged around New York City and environs.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026

For 15 years, both with a band and on his own, DeBardi had gigged around Everett and Western Washington under the moniker Steel Beans in relative obscurity.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

After graduation, he gigged around town, including a stint at the top-floor bar at L’Ermitage Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

We started doing the London comedy circuit around the same time, and so we’ve gigged together a lot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Though of course they wouldn’t have been gigged.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"We cannot lose this music as we are on the way out," pleaded Diasihilua, who has already spent 50 of his 73 years on earth gigging.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

Singer Reiner was gigging as a photographer in the late 1980s, visiting film sets as part of her income.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

“Anybody here gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs? Pearl, have you been gigging Aunt Fanny’s frogs?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck


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