labor force
Example Sentences
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The jobless rate held steady as more people joined the labor force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Taken together, Nvidia is making it easier to make useful humanoid robots that can one day expand the labor force.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Although the budget documents note the potential for gains from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI, each of which have a significant labor force in the state, the government refrained from estimating the impact.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
The ECB calculates that while workers aged 65 years and above account for just 3% of the eurozone’s labor force, the equivalent rates in the U.S. and Japan are 7% and 14% respectively.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
