workless

Example Sentences

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WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

"We are committed to tackling child poverty and have made progress since we came into government, with 730,000 fewer children in workless households," he told the Guardian newspaper.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2019

He had utterly forgotten about his plight until then,—how he was homeless, workless and bound to starve and freeze sooner or later.

From The Little House in the Fairy Wood by Eliot, Ethel Cook