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as in rented
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum
the Youngs hired a limousine for their daughter's wedding
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as in employed
to provide with a paying job
the farm hires teenagers to pick blueberries in the summer
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Recent Examples of hired
The Kings hired Peter Laviolette as their head coach earlier this month, and Clarke’s offensive skill fits well into the team’s possible evolution away from its traditional defense-first mentality to a more aggressive club under Laviolette.
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Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
After serving in the Army during World War II and performing in the Borscht Belt, Sid Caesar hired him as a writer.
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ABC News,
26 June 2026
He was hired by the Mets a month after David Stearns joined New York as president of baseball operations.
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Ronald Blum,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Pascarella said her landlord hired a company to bring in dehumidifiers to set up inside her apartment.
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Erika Stanish,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Police told the outlet that Weckesser, who worked as a pest control technician for a local company, was hired to do pest control for a home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
Firms hired large classes of associates, assigned them substantial quantities of legal work, billed clients for that work, and promoted a relatively small percentage into partnership.
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Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Lazowski once visited Bloomfield High School to talk to students and ran into Joseph Olzacki, who had then been hired as the new director of performing arts, the Courant reported in 2014.
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Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2026
This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2026
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
After serving in the Army during World War II and performing in the Borscht Belt, Sid Caesar hired him as a writer.
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ABC News,
26 June 2026
He was hired by the Mets a month after David Stearns joined New York as president of baseball operations.
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Ronald Blum,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2026
Pascarella said her landlord hired a company to bring in dehumidifiers to set up inside her apartment.
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Erika Stanish,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Police told the outlet that Weckesser, who worked as a pest control technician for a local company, was hired to do pest control for a home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
26 June 2026
Firms hired large classes of associates, assigned them substantial quantities of legal work, billed clients for that work, and promoted a relatively small percentage into partnership.
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Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
Lazowski once visited Bloomfield High School to talk to students and ran into Joseph Olzacki, who had then been hired as the new director of performing arts, the Courant reported in 2014.
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Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2026
This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hired
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In recent years, the principal has rented out the South Side high school’s campus to churches, nonprofits and sports leagues, and leaned on a new parent group to drum up donations.
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In the mid-two-thousands, Whitehead periodically rented the house from an aunt, hosting friends on nostalgic trips that spurred him to write about the place.
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Nearly a year after that settlement, Miller is still employed by the carrier, now in video production on its global communications team.
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The agency employed 74,000 people at the beginning of the 2026 tax-filing season, a 27% reduction from the 102,000 employees a year earlier, Collins wrote.
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With Davis’ contract experience, Schein recruited him at CBS.
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In early 2011, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recruited him to manage its cyberwarfare initiatives.
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They got engaged nine months later, but called off their engagement in late 2015.
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The dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv comes just as Europe has re-engaged the United States in pressuring Moscow to end the war, with officials on the continent warning the neighbors’ tensions would play into the hands of President Vladimir Putin.
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The amount of money each customer receives from the settlement is based on the total amount of Amazon Prime membership fees paid throughout the duration of their subscription.
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His captors released him after his family paid the $15,000 ransom.
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“Hired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hired. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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