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[job] / dʒɒb /




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Higher bond market yields just might be making Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s job easier.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Standing on Walton’s main street near a fried chicken shop, Morgan Price, 22, is one of a million young Brits who aren’t in school, don’t have a job and aren’t training for one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“That’s our job, trying to get the starter, especially when you’re facing a guy like him, out of the game early,” said left fielder Teoscar Hernández, who logged two hits against Misiorowski.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"We had heavy rain a couple of weeks after he did the job, and it ended up like a waterfall coming down the wall," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Finally Phineas takes a job plowing for a farmer near the little town of Santa Clara.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

But he says too many people just use it to top up their income and don’t get jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

In May, Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest HBCU, eliminated 79 jobs in the face of an $18 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

"I am eternally grateful that I got these jobs," he responds.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The bullet points included starting with strong, committed ownership; delivering a good product; establishing credibility and trust with fans and media; and hiring good people and letting them do their jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

I think the smells of their jobs have permanently soaked into their skins.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Then it may end up in an off-price channel or being jobbed out to another country, et cetera.

From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022

College football fans watching the game believed Tennessee got jobbed.

From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2021

Eakes, Sorsa and Dickey balance subtle humor with striking authenticity, whereas Garrison is a full-blown comic diva who seems to have jobbed in from one of Shore’s more farcical early plays — a tonal irregularity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2020

After his discharge, he jobbed around as a disc jockey and newscaster at commercial stations in North Carolina and Virginia, including WAVA-FM in Northern Virginia, before joining NPR.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

We jobbed our bayonets under the lager-beer counter, to provide for the case of any lurking foe in that quarter.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Indeed, Liekhus is the first actor who was able to convince me that the character of Ma Rainey really is a professional, jobbing singer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Many legendary leaders have successfully paired public praise with private criticism, and listening to McCullum in particular can inspire even a jobbing journalist to take on the world.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

"I've got 50 credits on IMDB," says Crawford, who describes himself as "a jobbing actor".

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025

Looking back, he's glad he posted and shone a light on what it can be like as a jobbing actor.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

His musical efflorescence was tragically brief, but this is the man who turned the chord-strumming, jobbing electric guitar into a high-wire, virtuoso lead instrument, from also-ran to star turn.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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