as in unemployed
having no job
having been jobless for six months, he was starting to get seriously discouraged
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Recent Examples of jobless
Labor Department data released on Thursday showed one of the biggest weekly increases in jobless claims seen in more than a year.
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John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
The jobless rate is projected to drop to the mid to lower 5% range in 2027.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
That political experiment left thousands of federal workers jobless, many federal programs discontinued, and the morale of public servants at an all-time low, culminating in a spectacular falling out with President Trump.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Only a decade later, that number shot down dramatically—only 2.1% of the country’s population was jobless.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
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John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
The jobless rate is projected to drop to the mid to lower 5% range in 2027.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
That political experiment left thousands of federal workers jobless, many federal programs discontinued, and the morale of public servants at an all-time low, culminating in a spectacular falling out with President Trump.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Only a decade later, that number shot down dramatically—only 2.1% of the country’s population was jobless.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jobless
unemployed
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As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Everything below has a higher poverty level, and the numbers mean that there’s a greater chance of being poor than the national average chance of being unemployed.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Jobless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobless. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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