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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The Hornets’ starting lineup also boasts the highest offensive rating among all starting lineups, per the NBA’s advanced stats — and that group, in fact, has the highest offensive rating of all lineups employed across the NBA that have logged at least 172 minutes together.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
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Witzburg, who is set to leave office later this month as her term expires, declined to identify the staffer or the mayoral administration that employed them.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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Athena's parents, Jacob Strand and Maitlyn Gandy, then filed a lawsuit against Horner and the contractor who hired him, per NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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But evidence is mounting that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted before they were brought on or were hired in spite of their past, an investigation by The Associated Press found.—
Ryan J. Foley,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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In the film, middle school teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is recruited to help save Earth because of his history as a cell biologist with some iconoclastic ideas about life in the universe.—
Tara Haelle,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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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 20 Apr. 2026.
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