earn a living
Example Sentences
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If machines can perform most economically valuable work better than humans can, how do people earn a living and support their families?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
"It was becoming too much, training and working and just trying to earn a living," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
"You're basically invisible. You don't exist. It's like you're living in the shadows. You don't have a bank account, you can't apply for a decent job that you can earn a living with."
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
But Tilly is far less a threat to Hollywood than actors who earn a living in car commercials and insurance ads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025
The scholarly man said, “The nuns in the priory. How do they earn a living? Do they make perfumes, anything like that?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
