unproductive

Example Sentences

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"For someone with my character, if I feel unproductive it's a huge difficulty for me."

From BBC • May 24, 2026

It warns: “There is currently no treatment for citrus greening. Once a tree is infected, it will eventually become unproductive and may even die.”

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

In a 2024 interview, Amodei said he had a different vision for how AI safety should be handled, and “it’s incredibly unproductive to try and argue with someone else’s vision,” so he left.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

The best news of all is about the place where jobs were not created at all—at one particularly unproductive and highly indebted enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

I never regarded our time together as wasted or unproductive.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson