job
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The consumer is going to continue to be demanding and seek value, and our job is to deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The closest woman for the job was Gail Curley, the Supreme Court’s marshal.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Employers that do not publish a job advert for a role would have to give candidates the information in writing prior to a job interview.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Canada's economy had sputtered over the past year, as Trump's tariffs squeezed key sectors like auto-making, forced job losses and sent jitters across the business community.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I’ve gotten a job at a department store downtown.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
In Kansas City, small businesses reported that they are cutting jobs as lower- and middle-income consumers pull back on discretionary spending.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ministers argue greater transparency will help people navigate the jobs market and could prevent future pay discrimination claims.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Fed has a dual mandate of maintaining price stability and maximum employment, and generally keeps interest rates higher to curb inflation, or lower to boost the jobs market.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Almost 60% of central-government and public-sector jobs and student seats in government-funded universities, including at the country’s most prestigious engineering, medicine and management schools, are closed to open competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Well, sort of. I know him from the lawn jobs I’ve been doing. He’s a good guy. I’ll go out and see what he’s doing here.”
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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
The Dodgers may have been jobbed out of two World Series championships, having lost to the Astros in seven games in 2017 and the Red Sox in five games in 2018.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2020
He got jobbed out in that goofy angle with Cena and The Rock at Wrestlemania 32.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2017
It was the same pin, sir, but he jobbed it into me further.
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Piffard, Harold
"I've got 50 credits on IMDB," says Crawford, who describes himself as "a jobbing actor".
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
He had previously appeared in several television shows as a jobbing actor - from Hollyoaks to Doctors and EastEnders.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
Foad, 29, describes himself as a "jobbing comedy writer" who won a scholarship to drama school before moving into scriptwriting.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022
Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry told BBC's Sunday Politics programme that the move was "a backwards step" and that Lord Alderdice had made "a fundamentally poor judgement call" to propose the reintroduction of double jobbing.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2022
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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