job
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The guidance says risks include deportation or job termination, which could impact a borrower’s ability to repay a loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Unions have strongly criticised VW and Blume for unsettling employees by allowing media reports of mass job cuts to circulate without comment, demanding the CEO take a public stand.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some months I feel like I’m getting ahead; other months I wonder whether I should have taken a traditional salaried job instead.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I think we’re just doing a good job with the plan,” Wrobleski said last week, days before he was named an All-Star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"I can give you another job of less responsibility and more suited to you, if you wish."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
A heavily congested schedule lends itself to splitting the coaching jobs, but can also lead to one team being sidelined in terms of access to multi-format players.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The increased speeds of conveyor belts in meatpacking plants, Mr. Smil notes, make those jobs among the most perilous in existence as measured by worker injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"As half of our overheads stem from staff costs, a theoretical calculation -- assuming no change in labour costs -- would result in the loss of around 50,000 jobs," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Of course, you don’t pay more tax simply because you have multiple jobs.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Daddy worked at the Greenbriar as a bellman in addition to doing side jobs.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
The play is rife with Williams’ flamboyant aphorisms, but the other characters all sound as if they were jobbed in from a daytime soap opera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2017
They were not content with being jobbed into positions: they wanted fame.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
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
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
In his letter, Lord Caine said he was opposed to the possibility of double jobbing remaining indefinitely so the amendment was reworked with a time limit.
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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