as in employing
to provide with a paying job
the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks
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Recent Examples of feeing
Being here in the city that raised me is a dope feeing and putting a Knicks jersey on is pretty surreal for me.
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Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feeing
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Often employing caricature, distortion and symbolism to communicate anxiety and resistance, his works are personal and political, offering a critique of the systems that oppress people of color.—
Evan Nicole Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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In a year, the Dolphins have gone from employing one of the most talented group of edge players to one of the least accomplished.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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Nolting said the district posts positions based on student enrollment and said posting the position without student registrations could lead to hiring a teacher for a position that may not exist.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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Subcontractors were selected in part based on their track records in hiring residents, minorities, and women, and in utilizing MBE/WBE firms.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Wiseman has played a key role in recruiting companies to join the demolition effort.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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Morning Consult, which often partners with Politico, collects very large samples—sometimes in the tens of thousands—-by recruiting people online, which costs less than conducting phone calls.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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But determining how to structure reimbursements would be tricky, as the costs of the tariffs flowed through the economy in the form of customers paying the taxes directly as well as importers either passing along the cost indirectly or absorbing them.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Feb. 2026
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Kyiv is paying the price of the upheaval with constant churn and relentless loss, Ukrainians told me.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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But no character in any Broadway musical of recent vintage is designed to steal scenes like Aunt Debra, and Emily Koch obliges with a bold, brassy portrayal that proves a key catalyst for the engaging spirit of this marvelous production.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
25 Feb. 2026
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This kind of active listening and engaging could change the experience for both letter writer and mother.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Feeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeing. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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