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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 just under 1.78 million in the week through Aug. 15, falling by 18,000 from the downwardly revised total a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

He has not been identified and was unemployed, Barrett said.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

Yet in their rush to destroy the old guard, Weiss and Ellison have overlooked the fact that they left behind an elite corps of unemployed, highly motivated investigative journalists with nothing left to lose.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

The July jobs report showed it took unemployed Americans almost 25 weeks on average to find their next job.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Again I met the Irish chap and we discussed world happenings, the vast armies of unemployed, the rising tide of radical action.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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