gainfully
Example Sentences
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“At Atoms we make gainfully employed robots—specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large,” Kalanick wrote on the company’s website.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
It would provide authorization to work and live here subject to certain conditions, including not committing crimes and staying gainfully employed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Yet, with how much time these commenters seem to have to seek out unemployment announcements, one has to surmise that internet trolls aren’t exactly the most gainfully employed members of society themselves.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
He was often poor, always mooching, rarely gainfully employed for long.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
If I stay, I’m gainfully employ on a salary ain even startin to be a minimal wage.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
