unemployed

Example Sentences

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There are currently 0.9 job openings for every unemployed person.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The latest data shows 700,000 graduates are unemployed and claiming benefits and Diss says her case suggests they require a different sort of help.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Advances in robotics present new possibilities for medicine, but also portend a system that could leave millions of its human workers unemployed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Students and the unemployed worked as line-sitters; for up to $5 an hour, they’d sit in your car and inch it forward toward the gas pumps.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Throughout the spring of 1893 the streets of Chicago filled with unemployed men from elsewhere, but otherwise the city seemed immune to the nation’s financial troubles.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson