unemployed
Example Sentences
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He has not been identified and was unemployed, Barrett said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population, totaled 1.78 million in the week through Aug. 1, falling by 22,000 from the downwardly revised total of 1.8 million a week earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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