How to Use outsource in a Sentence

outsource

verb
  • Want to outsource the whole feast or just need help with the sides and pies?
    Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That’s okay; like the cleaning, the best thing to do is outsource it.
    Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2019
  • But the response to the pause in research in the United States wasn't to outsource.
    Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The Hopi Health Care Center has to outsource much of its care.
    NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Tempe now must outsource forensic work to Mesa, at great cost.
    Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • To test for other health factors, a provider may need to outsource.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 20 May 2024
  • One of them is the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Aegis.
    Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Democrats first outsourced their attempts to fight Donald Trump to the office of Robert Mueller.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
  • The union has asked for an explicit agreement from Kaiser not to outsource jobs.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Among the trends is a move to outsource jobs not central to a company’s business.
    Michelle R. Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Yet the freakish year of 2020 gave him the chance to outsource his candidacy to the weird cycle of events that drove down Trump’s polls.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • What are the consequences of outsourcing these jobs in terms of the quality of the work being done?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • 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
  • In Oregon, this job has been outsourced to the executive branch.
    Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • 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
  • Unlike Tesla, which has its own car factories and has plans for more, Fisker plans to outsource the building of its cars.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The study quoted providers who were unhappy with attempts to outsource CCM work.
    Phil Galewitz, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
    Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
  • There are successful teams that outsource much of this and others that are entirely in-house.
    Austin Helton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Big tech companies would win and outsourcing companies would lose under a change to the way the lottery for the H-1B visa is run.
    Ethan Baron, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
  • First, the limit encourages us to decline, outsource or otherwise weed out tasks that shouldn’t make our to-do list in the first place.
    Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Sure, some projects are not meant to be done yourself, but that also doesn't mean all are meant to be outsourced to professionals.
    Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 15 May 2019
  • The list also called for hazard pay for teachers and for a commitment to not outsource school service jobs.
    John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Executives could outsource their work amid fights for fair wages.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • Some creatives already leverage AI to outsource menial tasks and free up resources for their passion projects.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024

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