workless

Example Sentences

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WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

The most recent Office for National Statistics figures, for 2018, classed 25.2% of households in the city as workless, compared to 17.1% across Scotland, and a British average of 14.3%.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2020

In those walks the nursemaids and children, and dainty folk, are wandering as usual airing their curls in the fresh breeze; and only now and then a workless operative trails by with chastened look.

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin