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
To keep the man eighth in line to the British throne gainfully employed, the U.K. government gave him a new job: special representative for international trade and investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
At the center of this story is a gainfully employed layabout, an unnamed, possibly mythical “friend of a friend.”
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
He was often poor, always mooching, rarely gainfully employed for long.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
Such girls live in quiet black neighborhoods where everybody is gainfully employed.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
