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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So tricky is cafeteria oversight that many schools outsource it.
    Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Because the doctor’s slides were covered with a special stain, Brady had to outsource the analysis work to a private lab.
    Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
  • Xi took the money and outsourced the job to another would-be hitman, Mo Tianxiang, while keeping half of the initial amount.
    Eric Cheung, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Web copy is often the last step, and a lot of businesses outsource it to unqualified freelancers.
    Marc Hardgrove, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Executives could outsource their work amid fights for fair wages.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • The desire to outsource some of the creative process to algorithms is old, older than AI, even older than computers.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Several of those opposed to the legislation told their fellow delegates that mining has already proven to be safe and the law would outsource jobs to foreign countries that rely on child labor.
    Mark Wasson, Twin Cities, 2 June 2024

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