How to Use outsource in a Sentence

outsource

verb
  • Nitso of the Old Stone Inn said her hotel has had to outsource housekeeping jobs for the first time due to a lack of workers.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
  • No one else can do this inner work for you, so don't try to outsource it -- the results will only frustrate you!
    Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • If your teams don't have the resource, then outsource this activity as a short-term fix.
    Simone Morris, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • For the time being, most of these companies outsource to established labs to get the results.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And, in New York, some companies may pull listings or outsource more jobs to avoid the new requirements—at least at first.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • There are successful teams that outsource much of this and others that are entirely in-house.
    Austin Helton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Those of us who outsource care work are no different from our nannies and child-care workers and the people cleaning our homes.
    Angela Garbes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • Here’s how to outsource your way to holiday happiness in 2024.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Because the doctor’s slides were covered with a special stain, Brady had to outsource the analysis work to a private lab.
    Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
  • Web copy is often the last step, and a lot of businesses outsource it to unqualified freelancers.
    Marc Hardgrove, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The desire to outsource some of the creative process to algorithms is old, older than AI, even older than computers.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Features like these—which help humans do the work of vetting sources for themselves—serve searchers better than any attempt to outsource that labor to AI.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 19 May 2021
  • These firms would design and sell their own chips, but outsource manufacturing to a third-party.
    Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Arizona law does not allow the Senate to outsource democracy and shroud it in secrecy.
    Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2021
  • The latest workplace scam to look out for: Employees hiring their own employees to outsource their work.
    Amber Burton, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Many chipmakers outsource large amounts of their manufacturing, and some have never owned a plant of their own.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 22 July 2021
  • The steeper the cost became for new fabrication units the more other chipmakers started to outsource, and the more TSMC’s competitors in the pure-play foundry market dropped out of the race.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Some banks will outsource this capability to BaaS platforms, but will still need some in-house support.
    Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • But those who would rather outsource the task can now hire a growing number of artisans to create elaborate artwork that is placed flat on top of a cap.
    Rachel Simon, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • There's no need to outsource security for someone else.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Fifty-four percent plan to outsource more jobs to freelancers and 40% are making more hires from internal employees.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Ford, for instance, is one major rival that is sticking with a plan to outsource battery production.
    Dale Buss, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Some states run those plans themselves; others outsource the plans to private insurers.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some hospitals outsource their emergency room teams, which means that service could be out-of-network.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • Some have their own teams, while others outsource it to another company.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The case gives new focus to problems with that system, in which critical tech companies outsource their trust to third parties with their own agendas.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But timely nourishing is a popular task to outsource to a robot.
    Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • Flanagan and Fong devote an enormous amount of time in each episode, and outsource many scares and much character development, to these vignettes.
    Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Part of Bird’s model was to outsource the challenging logistics of leaving scooters propped up in public places for anyone to rent, steal, or abuse.
    Amy Martyn, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Finding a way to outsource household chores or administrative tasks will continue to be an area of growth in the gig economy.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2021

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