JOBBED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

jobbed

verb

past tense of job

as in employed

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The Dispatch reported that an EMCC Athletics representative would not confirm whether Stephens remains employed by the school in another capacity.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Chicago police employed 1,102 total detectives as of May 2023, and 1,163 as of last week.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of employed

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For sponsored products ads, the FTC alleges advertisers paid their full winning bid about 80% of the time in 2024.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
His Know Your Rights Camp has helped pay for 150 independent autopsies — such as the one for Nolan Wells this year — and has also paid hundreds of thousands in legal grants and bail relief.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026

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Summary Canadian universities have successfully recruited 64 international scholars, 48 from top American institutions like Harvard and MIT.

— Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Serving as the territory’s secretary of education between 2013 and 2017, overseeing all of its public schools from kindergarten through high school, he was recruited to Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 as a teacher.

— Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

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Slattery will play James Leavitt, a highly experienced and formidable defense lawyer retained by City Hall to counter Jason’s class-action lawsuit.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
However, the Venezuelan native still faces deportation and has retained an attorney.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

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This metric measures contracted revenue expected to be realized over the next 12 months, so a mid-teens growth rate is bullish.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Turns out the White Chicks alum had contracted staphylococcus and needed debridement surgery to treat the infection.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of contracted

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Latonya Marble, the program coordinator, will also plan activities to keep students of all interests engaged.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
Not Netflix‘s The Whisper Man, though, which doesn’t need the extra time and sails by in under two hours as a movie in a pulsating pace that keeps us engaged and guessing from beginning to end.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026

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