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[job] / dʒɒb /




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"They don't have any job security. They don't have benefits like pension because they are not permanent employees."

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

I reject the false choice that New Yorkers must pick between leading the future of AI and protecting affordability, ratepayers, existing job creators and the communities where these facilities are built.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Critics have argued that the employer NI raise ultimately affects workers by limiting job opportunities.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

They’re also looking for jobs at a time when AI has upended the job search.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Phineas has come for a final examination by Dr. Harlow and to reclaim his old job on the railroad.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

But with few barriers to entry, the sector still attracts many workers who migrate from rural areas to cities in search of opportunity, often juggling jobs across several households in a day.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The study authors say one possible explanation is that many seated jobs involve problem-solving, concentration and other forms of intellectual stimulation.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

This is just software coding, but the same type of pattern is being seen, at an earlier stage, with financial analysis, early stage legal work, even some entry level creative industry jobs.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Millions of young Americans face a credible risk of losing their jobs and livelihoods to AI in the near future.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Tickled Pink demonstrated the process using her own card, and the screen showcased zero print jobs ready.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

Injunctions, hearings and appeals, and now she was coming back, swearing she'd been "jobbed," the judge had been bought, and the jury corrupted.

From Pardners by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Frustrated, Layla began speaking about her experience with other former clients and Alexa Morden, host of the 98% Club, a podcast which explores the reality of work for jobbing actors.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2024

Peers in the House of Lords are due to debate a government plan later to bring back double jobbing.

From BBC Jan. 19, 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

Double jobbing, also known as dual mandates, were banned in Northern Ireland in 2016, when a number of MPs were forced to give up their seats in the assembly.

From BBC Jan. 16, 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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