Example Sentences

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A home-siding manufacturer is building a factory in Crystal City that will employ more than 200 workers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

We will employ activism as a risk-management tool to mitigate the downside that such unfriendliness can create.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

The company is now pushing deeper into the realm of corporations that will employ such models to solve real-life problems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Also announced was £700m to reform the probation service - that cash will fund further recruitment on top of the 1,300 officers the government had already said it will employ this year.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

“As for who will employ you, there is no such thing. Anyone can go and work and be paid by the results—so much for each sackful.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya