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The company has 25,000 contributors across 30 countries to work on voice, video and text completion tasks.
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Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Several Mets pitchers, including Manaea and Devin Williams, are working on cutters to give their arsenals another distinct pitch to land in the strike zone.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Jim Davis, a Democrat, is a retired businessman and political writer from Rome and has worked on both Democratic and Republican political campaigns.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026
Second, the swift realignment of NASA Goddard’s priorities with the President’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year — a realignment that occurred when the budget was still only a request — reduced the availability of mission formulation and mission engineering personnel to work on AXIS.
—Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026
My character, Wendy, works on a construction site.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
The firm centers its work on planning before exits, not after them.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
The Broncos are working on all those kinds of things, too, like every team in football is.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
—Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Several Mets pitchers, including Manaea and Devin Williams, are working on cutters to give their arsenals another distinct pitch to land in the strike zone.
—Tim Britton, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Jim Davis, a Democrat, is a retired businessman and political writer from Rome and has worked on both Democratic and Republican political campaigns.
—Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2026
Second, the swift realignment of NASA Goddard’s priorities with the President’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year — a realignment that occurred when the budget was still only a request — reduced the availability of mission formulation and mission engineering personnel to work on AXIS.
—Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026
My character, Wendy, works on a construction site.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 11 Mar. 2026
The firm centers its work on planning before exits, not after them.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
The Broncos are working on all those kinds of things, too, like every team in football is.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
—Nur Hikmah Md Ali, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Work on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20on. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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