as in employed
to provide with a paying job
the sports shoe company recently signed up the nation's top female college basketball player to plug its products
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This can likely be traced back to Gian Piero Gasperini’s arrival in Serie A with Genoa in 2007, using a back-three system to counteract the prevailing, narrow 4-3-1-2 shape that was commonly employed in Italy.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025 -
The report also notes European Social Surveys – tracking public attitudes, beliefs and behavior – which show that there is a 25% chance unemployed people at the lowest levels of jobless benefits will vote for the far right versus 15% for those who are employed.—
Ana Nicolaci da Costa,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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Norvell was hired as a contrast to the personally tempestuous and offensively conservative Addazio.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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Anthropic also hired senior Biden-era officials to lead its government relations team, Sacks noted.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
19 Oct. 2025
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Each of us could be recruited tomorrow and offered more money elsewhere.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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The researchers recruited 28 female veterans aged 32 to 72, all of whom had been diagnosed with PTSD.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
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The couple began dating in 2017 and got engaged about two years later.—
Alyssa Davis,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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The couple revealed that they have been engaged since June in an Instagram post.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Signed (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/signed%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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