unemployed

Example Sentences

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There is currently 0.9 job opening for every unemployed person.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Across IITs nationally, 8,000 of 21,500 graduates remain unemployed.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Advances in robotics present new possibilities for medicine, but also portend a system that could leave millions of its human workers unemployed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Students and the unemployed worked as line-sitters; for up to $5 an hour, they’d sit in your car and inch it forward toward the gas pumps.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

In a single night, as if by magic, beautifully pruned gardens and flowerbeds appeared on the avenues; they had been planted by the unemployed, to create the illusion of a peaceful spring.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende