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

“The optimistic scenario is that MIT’s candidates will end up gainfully employed in great jobs, albeit not the jobs they would have potentially gotten in a normal year,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 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 pointed out that Minguela didn’t have a criminal record and was gainfully employed, the primary breadwinner for his family.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

Such girls live in quiet black neighborhoods where everybody is gainfully employed.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison