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recruit

[ri-kroot] / rɪˈkrut /




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Neither Michigan Sen. Gary Peters nor Gov. Gretchen Whitmer—the latter Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s first attempted recruit for the Senate race—would have endorsed in the race unless they felt they had to.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

It was an unheralded USD quarterback recruit from Oakland named Josh Johnson.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Back in Skegness, Dave Charles says he will continue to hire young people and that "if you recruit the right young people they are great".

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

They display foreign or abnormal proteins to T cells, which then recruit other immune cells to respond to the threat.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

The Patriots had tried in vain to recruit me.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

From above, an outdoor terrace is outfitted especially for hosting recruits or other luminaries, complete, for the time being, with basketball courts and pickleball.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

According to his lawyers, Tan "repeatedly instructed recruits and his team not to bring or disclose former employers' confidential information."

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

The Enthusiasm Society, whose members are known by their surnames, recruits Saxberger to join and sets about announcing itself to the world via an evening of performed monologues and poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

AFC is the largest military training establishment for under-19s in the UK and it receives all the Army's 16-year-old recruits.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Lined up in the churchyard, the recruits were supplied with weaponry by Redtooth and Darkclaw.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Within a few years, he was recruited to run for a San Gabriel Valley Assembly seat.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Despite the trends in activity and new work, services providers on average recruited additional staff in July.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

The team recruited nearly 200 people from the McGill community.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Many company leaders went to the University of Copenhagen medical school or business school or were recruited from the Danish shipping giant Maersk or the management consulting firm Accenture Denmark.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Also recruited from Miss Handler’s schoolhouse, Isis and Betty were similar in age and build to Cora.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

These are the officers charged with recruiting the officers of the future, so the stakes here are high.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Investigators said the companies allegedly sought to conceal the identity of their Chinese financial backers while establishing "unauthorised" operations or "illegally" recruiting talent.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

That includes visiting career services, attending job fairs and building relevant work experience potentially years before your fellow classmates begin thinking seriously about recruiting.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

At camps where no instructor is on the schedule, teenage players are bringing their own sets and recruiting peers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

When I say run a company, I mean keeping track of inventory, staying in touch with customers, recruiting, project management, product development, scheduling, budgeting, and human resources.

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




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