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 makes little sense to round up and deport those who haven’t committed crimes and are gainfully employed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

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