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unemployed

[uhn-em-ploid] / ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪd /


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Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled about 1.73 million in the week through Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

An unemployed former hotel employee who gave her first name as Oumy said as she marched on the weekend that she no longer believed in the government's promises.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

They also created a jobs program for unemployed artists using government funding from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The group began as online satire after India's Chief Justice Surya Kant compared some unemployed young people to cockroaches during a court hearing in May.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

She told me not to worry, that my father would come back home after serving the customary four weeks’ sentence for being unemployed.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane


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