gainfully
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They inherited $10 million from their grandparents, go skydiving on weekends, are gainfully employed, and do not need the money right now.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Gratefully, I live in a dual-income household where my spouse is gainfully employed and compensated well.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
“The optimistic scenario is that MIT’s candidates will end up gainfully employed in great jobs, albeit not the jobs they would have potentially gotten in a normal year,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
At the center of this story is a gainfully employed layabout, an unnamed, possibly mythical “friend of a friend.”
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
Such girls live in quiet black neighborhoods where everybody is gainfully employed.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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