as in hired
to provide with a paying job
thousands of recent immigrants were recruited to build the nation's rail system
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Recent Examples of recruited
Upon arrival, officers found the injured man and woman, and the officers applied a tourniquet and recruited help from emergency medical personnel, per the release from PPB.
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Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
To help fill the gap, the research team relied on data from 27,670 adults in Sweden recruited to provide dietary data between 1991 and 1996.
—Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 9 Jan. 2026
A lot of new blood is circulating through the bracket, as Minnich’s team recruited 40 new advertisers, including OpenAI, Popeye’s, Liberty Mutual and Anthropic.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Her predecessor, who is no relation, recruited her to run for council a decade ago.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
Some 253 adults were recruited to participate in the study, primarily from the UK, US, Canada, and South Africa, with an average age of 49 years old.
—Joe Wilkins Published Jan 8, Futurism, 8 Jan. 2026
Pitt defensive tackle Francis Brewu is another name worth tracking, considering new Irish defensive line coach Charlie Partridge recruited him into the Panthers program before taking a job with the Indianapolis Colts.
—Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
He was recruited by Johnson and was an offensive lineman on the Hurricanes’ 1989 and 1991 national championship teams under Erickson.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
Auburn's pipeline is filled with plenty of talent waiting to be recruited, and the school has a substantial amount of resources to compete in the modern transfer portal, as well.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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Reuters reported Thursday that Comcast had hired bankers from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to sort through a potential bid for some of WBD’s assets.—
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Investigations found the voicemails of public figures were hacked by journalists and private investigators hired by publications who worked on the assumption that few people changed the default voicemail access code their handset came with.—
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Student enrollment at Epic had swelled to 60,000 students in 2020-21, the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, and the school employed more than 1,600 teachers that year.—
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DeCristo, who is still employed by the university as an assistant professor in the American Studies Department, did not respond to a request for comment from Bee.—
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“Recruited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recruited. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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