Elmer
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The story beneath was an inflated reaction to new technology that quoted former Pennsylvania Congressman Elmer J. Holland saying “one of the greatest problems with automation is not the worker who is fired, but the worker who is not hired.”
From Barron's
Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine,” an expressionist classic on automation and worker insecurity, speaks directly to an age in which livelihoods are threatened by AI innovation.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s a good time for Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine,” which can only mean that it’s once again a bad time for workers.
From Los Angeles Times
They are Jose Ugarte, who was formerly Price’s deputy chief of staff; Estuardo Mazariegos, a lead organizer at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment; nonprofit director Elmer Roldan; entrepreneur Jorge Nuño; professor and therapist Martha Sánchez; and educator Jorge Hernandez Rosas.
From Los Angeles Times
The children’s section still has the comforting smell of old paper and Elmer’s glue.
From Literature
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