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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In an effort to preserve local culture, many of the room’s smaller decor pieces are sourced through the Sanaa workshop, a social enterprise that trains and employs individuals with disabilities.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Apr. 2026 -
DeviantArt’s Protect feature uses state-of-the-art image recognition to help safeguard creators’ work against unauthorized use, and the platform employs a dedicated team to investigate and mitigate the impact from spam, scams, fraud, and other bad actors.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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To wriggle out of Joseph’s grasp, Michael hires a brash young lawyer, John Branca, played by Miles Teller, who lends the coolly confident character a delightfully rough edge.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Based on a script by Justin Varava that made the 2024 Black List, Turpentine follows a deadbeat son who hires friends to rob his own parents to pay off a bookie, with disastrous results.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
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Marine recruits jog at Parris Island on Thursday.—
Betsy Badell,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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The three-year-old startup, which is valued at $10 billion, recruits experts in fields ranging from medicine to law to literature, to help provide data that improves the capabilities of AI models.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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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 24 Apr. 2026.
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