as in employs
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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Each branch employs technicians who understand the pests most common in their region, scorpions in the Southwest, ticks in the Midwest, or termites in the Southeast.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025 -
The company employs 230 people in Midland and 94 in Auburn Hills who will be affected.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Senior, the managing partner of the law firm that hires Matty.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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There’s the younger wife who falls in love with the woman her husband hires for a threesome, then walks off 10 minutes later with a $210m settlement once Nash acquires video evidence of his extensive perversions.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Legendary spymaster Al Pacino finds brilliant tech-head Colin Farrell and recruits him into the CIA, hinting strongly that the young man’s late father was also working for the organization.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Herodotus recruits evidence from passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey to show that Homer himself knew at least fragments of this tale yet opted to tell another, better yarn.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Signs (up or on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/signs%20%28up%20or%20on%29. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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