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

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