out of work
Example Sentences
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The Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada, says thousands of its members are now out of work or seeing their hours cut.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Might put some animators out of work, but if I had to pay the rate for animators on something like that, it would take a year to do and cost me a fortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Mona, a housewife with two kids, says her husband has been out of work since the beginning of the war.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
While the higher-paying jobs in the figure still have lower transitions out of work even after ChatGPT, AI exposure may reduce the gap in career length between low- and high-paying occupations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Nearly one-third of young black men in the United States today are out of work.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
