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  • If the club adopts the same approach this season, one of the three backup RBs will be out of a job.
    — Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The robots are in the workplace, but nobody is going to be out of a job.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • With Joe Biden’s victory, Trump will soon be out of a job.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 9 Nov. 2020
  • If Elon Musk buys Twitter, most of the company might soon be out of a job.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Now, the roughly 80 people still working there will soon be out of a job.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2021
  • But no one, fresh out of a job or really ever, should know that much about how to be out of a job.
    — Clio Chang, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Of course, that means that eight per cent of the state’s health-care workforce—more than fifty thousand people—may soon be out of a job.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2021
  • If Shelton gets fired down the road, Kelly could be on track to replace him — or Kelly could be out of a job too.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2020
  • That means Johnson — a Democratic appointee — will be out of a job soon.
    — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Roughly 1,000 people will be out of a job, according to NBC News.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Within 72 hours, Sampson would be out of a job and IU would enter a tailspin that took years to arrest.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Andres Garcia said many farmworkers will be out of a job for as long as the water stays high and fields are submerged.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • If family members were banned from trading, the speaker's husband would be out of a job.
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2022
  • For unrelated reasons, Molly’s soon to be out of a job.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • A lot of Amazon employees may be out of a job right before the holiday season.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Both need to get their acts together — sooner rather than later — or both will be out of a job sooner than later.
    — Jay Steven Levin, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • As the Federal Reserve drives up interest rates in a high-stakes bid to bring down inflation, more people will be out of a job.
    — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • One of the most successful agents in hip-hop could soon be out of a job in what sources are describing as a management clash at one of the biggest agencies in music.
    — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2020
  • But in mid-May, the corporate bosses returned and said the Postal Service had canceled their contract and that employees would be out of a job by the end of the month, Santana said.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • Not sure who is consulting the A’s president Dave Kaval on public relations, but that person should probably be out of a job.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2021
  • If the Chargers were in playoff contention, Badgley might be out of a job or, at least, certainly would be dealing with more outside pressure.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Faust, a conservative Republican with a private-sector background, may be out of a job by next spring.
    — Hannah Rappleye, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But naval dolphins might soon be out of a job: in 2017, the US Military may begin retiring dolphins in favor of cheaper mine-hunting robots.
    — Perrin Ireland, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2013
  • One private medical office manager in Coventry, who did not want to be named in this story, said the vaccine mandate means her entire office staff will be out of a job come October.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Johnson also pointed to a recent study by the California Policy Lab which showed many claimants had filed for benefits previously in the pandemic, likely returning to work after initial lockdowns lifted only to be out of a job once again.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The pivotal, controversial figure of Benjamin Netanyahu Political commentators have speculated that Netanyahu will almost certainly be out of a job when the war is over.
    — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023

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