headhunting
Example Sentences
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Dr Konyak points to explorers, colonial officials, missionaries and photographers drawn to tattooed faces, ornaments, weapons and headhunting, while the lives behind them often receded from view.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The city hired a headhunting firm for $75,000 to conduct a national search last spring and summer, which brought in 15 candidates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Several headhunting firms offered her opportunities, but she settled on an American company based in China.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The firm said on Sunday it would work with a headhunting firm to find a new CEO and did not set a timetable for the process.
From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2022
The quality of statesmanship in Wood which dealt with these problems and settled them so that from a slave-holding, polygamous, headhunting land there arose a self-governing community is of the highest order.
From The Career of Leonard Wood by Joseph Hamblen Sears
