unproductive

Example Sentences

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The closures targeted “structurally unproductive stores” with low sales, the company said on an earnings call last week.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

By focusing on the future and helping her do the same, you can avoid sliding into an unproductive and unpleasant dynamic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Afterward, Danish officials characterized the meeting as unproductive because of a “fundamental” difference with the United States.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

But he observed that team members often seemed mentally exhausted and unproductive by Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

It was three o’clock in the morning when he dropped the letters in the post office at King City and mounted and turned his horse south toward the unproductive hills of the old Hamilton place.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck