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outsource

[aut-sawrs, -sohrs] / ˈaʊtˌsɔrs, -ˌsoʊrs /
VERB
contract out
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AI has ushered in new questions about what marketers should do for themselves and what they should continue to outsource to providers like ad agencies and data specialists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But generative AI has vastly broadened the range of tasks that humans can successfully outsource.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

It warned: "Councils cannot outsource their safeguarding duty."

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Three of his colleagues concluded the Fed couldn’t outsource that work any longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Making your third grader go for a spray tan instead of playing in the park just so Mom can outsource her failed dreams to her kid? So wrong.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

He noted that the company’s partnership this year with Google Gemini effectively outsourced model development to that platform.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

The company’s proposed solution to the difficulties of outsourcing grocery shopping seemed to involve becoming an increasingly attentive manager of one’s outsourced grocery shopping.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The family’s investment portfolio includes a London skyscraper called Tower 42, Australian real-estate company Abacus Property Group and a stake in outsourced CIO firm Partners Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

He said cuts to British Transport Police funding had been "disastrous" and called for outsourced security and enforcement staff to be brought in-house "as a matter of urgency".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

I had heard that JetBlue had outsourced its entire reservation system to housewives in Utah, and I wanted to check this out.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

The company’s proposed solution to the difficulties of outsourcing grocery shopping seemed to involve becoming an increasingly attentive manager of one’s outsourced grocery shopping.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The FDA previously sent Apothecary Pharma a warning letter in December stating that the company failed to properly label the drug at its outsourcing facility in North Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

That growth has come with greater regulatory scrutiny and back-office outsourcing, driving demand for fund administration services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

So even with the outsourcing of some service jobs from the United States to India, India’s growing economy is creating a demand for many more American goods and services.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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