gainfully
Example Sentences
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Gratefully, I live in a dual-income household where my spouse is gainfully employed and compensated well.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
“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
Since he was gainfully employed by SNCC, had no outstanding debts and had plenty of cash in his wallet when arrested, the charge was groundless and, after a trial, had to be dropped.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
