unemployed

Example Sentences

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There is currently 0.9 job opening for every unemployed person.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Kelvin Karume, 22, who is currently unemployed and says he is trying to build an online presence as a content creator in Nairobi, says he found the videos on a Russian YouTube channel.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population fell to 1.82 million in the week through March 14, versus 1.85 million a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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

And as proof I would falsify the attendance records by filling out membership cards with fictitious names—all unemployed, of course, so as to avoid any question of dues.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison