How to Use by contract in a Sentence
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When week by week, contract by contract, the costs went up and up, hardly anybody noticed.
—Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 Sep. 2021
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The housing department has long been staffed by contract workers.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
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Build executive views that show status by site, by enclave and by contract.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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The Ravens’ training camp is being headlined by contract squabbles.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
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Methodist University had their site hacked by contract cheaters but acted quickly.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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Srinivasan’s citizens will be bound to one another only by contract.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Lundgaard, bound by contract, cannot seek other teams but believes his performance merits retention.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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But even then, the ILWU’s actions may be constrained by contract rules.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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Last year, when the city canceled its fireworks display, the company by contract was able to charge a 50% cancellation fee.
—Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
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Instead, they are often transferred by contract as personal property.
—Risa Cromer, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
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Agricultural applications, by contract, use gallons of this product per acre.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
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And that doesn’t include salaries — roughly 30% — which largely are fixed by contract but can be adjusted somewhat via union concessions or layoffs.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
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Given that most of the state’s debt costs are fixed by contract, critics say this cut likely would fall heavily on municipal aid, driving up property taxes.
—Keith Phaneuf, courant.com, 28 Jan. 2022
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The program is established and enforced by a private agreement — not legislation — and enforceable by contract law.
—CNN, 17 June 2021
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Hendrickson, whose final two seasons in Cincinnati were marred by contract questions, was said to be holding out for a deal that would pay him $30 million per year.
—Dianna Russini, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
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Some of those data-collection activities were previously handled by contract workers who in many cases will no longer be needed.
—Lauren Weber, WSJ, 15 July 2021
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Nor are small growers compelled by contract to produce thousands of perfect stems to catch the market for graduation or Valentine’s Day.
—Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
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But in addition to a free agent market flooded with unexpected talent next week, the coming days will feature creative moves by contract negotiators.
—Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
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Current workers say their jobs are at risk of being replaced by contract laborers, their union has not been recognized, and retaliation is still possible.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
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In the entertainment business, jobs are usually booked months in advance, locked in by contract and highly dependent on everyone showing up and doing their work.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 25 July 2024
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The shadow-caster is his father, a Colombian doctor and public-health activist gunned down in 1987 by contract killers in a Medellín street.
—Giles Tremlett, WSJ, 14 May 2021
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Ramirez wouldn’t say if Family-Match has deleted pilot data from its servers, but said her organization maintains a compliance audit and abides by contract terms.
—Sally Ho, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
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The jobs being terminated are currently filled by contract software engineers who have worked on projects that span Arm’s business around the world, according to another one of the people.
—Jane Lanhee Lee, Fortune Asia, 18 Dec. 2023
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Carriage decisions are governed by contract law; disappearing a cable channel isn’t as easy as disappearing a Twitter account.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
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TikTok’s data halls within these centers are managed in part by ByteDance and in part by contract workers from several data center management firms.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
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Intermittent fuel shortages and chronic blackouts, driven in part by contract disputes and the security crisis, are not uncommon in Haiti.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
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For Emergent, the revenue growth is being largely driven by contract development and manufacturing business.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
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That is at least partly because many types of potential legal claims are preempted by contract and arbitration procedures mandated by the league’s CBA.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2024
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Those confidentiality provisions are enforceable by contract, meaning a party that violates them can be sued for breach of contract and potentially face large monetary damages.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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And most of Apple’s products are produced by contract manufacturers such as Foxconn and Pegatron, which manage workers in China.
—Dan Wang, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
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