How to Use outsource in a Sentence

outsource

verb
  • Most snack brands outsource to a co-packer.
    Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The goal is not to outsource thinking.
    Swapnil Deshpande, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Some project leaders choose to outsource this work.
    Denys Kliuch, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Own your tests—do not outsource them to AI.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Too many founders outsource the hard part and hope capital fills the gap.
    Ravin Gandhi, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
  • That left the team to outsource player care through a variety of means.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Yet when parents outsource the work of raising their kids to a bot, both adults and children are bound to miss out.
    Miranda Rake, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Build systems early, stay laser-focused on your mission and outsource what drains you.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t outsource judgment to machines.
    Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Strong leaders don’t outsource thinking.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This means refusing to outsource your judgment to a system that is very good at sounding right.
    Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • As a result, its lines are different from competitors that still outsource to a third party.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • If evenings are low, simplify dinners a few nights a week or outsource deep cleaning when possible.
    Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Students can't outsource thinking to a chatbot when facing live questions.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t outsource this to ChatGPT and call it a day.
    Erik Huberman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But others fear that the government will outsource the management of entire parks.
    Gloria Liu, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Not everyone can afford to outsource bigger household chores.
    Tracee M. Herbaugh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Effective leaders do not outsource judgment to groupthink.
    Gary Shapiro, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There is no current replacement for her but there are no plans for the studio to outsource casting to outside casting directors.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 May 2026
  • But no country can permanently outsource the welfare of its citizens.
    W. Gyude Moore, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
  • Bailey said the city should return to 2015 staffing levels and try to outsource many services to the private sector.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Countries must share such a responsibility, not outsource it, as Europe has done.
    Ekrem Imamoglu, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025
  • If the vendor is already at capacity with production orders and new work hits the floor, the vendor will outsource the work to meet the deadline.
    Raj Dhiman, Sourcing Journal, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Because somewhere along the way, many leaders also outsource financial judgment.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • UncleStem opted to outsource the cutting process to a professional service equipped to work with large-format sheets.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • These proxies serve as the regime’s external walls, designed to outsource instability and keep the threat far from Tehran.
    Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • Use tech to reduce friction behind the scenes, but never outsource the respect and connection people crave and deserve upfront.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • When students outsource their thinking to machines, they short-circuit the very process that a college education is meant to cultivate.
    Matthew Scogin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Consumers are also adopting the tech to outsource administrative tasks.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • More than 80 people are losing their jobs in the Charlotte region at two textiles plants as the company moves to outsource part of its work.
    Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2026

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