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

She defended the government's economic record, saying figures today showed the number of children living in workless households was "at a record low".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2018

I spent my afternoons in the lodging houses, pocket Bible in hand, going from man to man as they sat there, workless, homeless, dejected and in despair.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander