an employee with highly marketable skills
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
Recent Examples on the WebOver the past decade, Crawford and others have studied these drugs in clinical trials, but none of these studies has resulted in a marketable drug.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 The company refers to the operation as a biorefinery, reflecting its beyond-ethanol focus on clean-energy products and other marketable grain biproducts.—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024 The zinc concentrate is expected to be a marketable concentrate with no deleterious elements other than an iron penalty.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024 Your hobbies might also involve marketable skills — e.g., photography, video creation, podcasting, editing.—Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Its arrival upended conventions for young readers, whose fervor for realism made mature themes marketable.—Melena Ryzik Adali Schell, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024 Clark’s success on the court has already turned her into one of the biggest, and most marketable, college stars, helping to usher in a new era of women’s college sports.—Issy Ronald, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024 Writers go there to seek redemption, and to chart their evolution from naïve to knowing: no narrative is more marketable than metamorphosis.—Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024 Still boast extra fast typing as one of your most marketable skills?—USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
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