How to Use workforce in a Sentence
workforce
noun- We have a workforce of 2,400 people.
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Times have changed since Smith joined the workforce.
—ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
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More than half the workforce is furloughed.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
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The workforce isn’t waiting to be grown.
—Curtis Anderson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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Starz laid off about 7% of its workforce in March.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2026
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For today's workforce though, those days seem like a far-off dream.
—Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
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That starts with the robotic workforce.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
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The liquid workforce trend isn’t new.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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These are all families who are part of the low-wage workforce.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
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That’s less than 1% of its total workforce.
—Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
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Now, some of the workforce is aging out, leaving gaps.
—Eva Flowe may 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 May 2026
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The future workforce has to be built somewhere.
—Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
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That's about 95% of the space agency's workforce.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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The workforce is growing just as quickly.
—Bybryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
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Another way to break down the payer workforce is to look at roles.
—Shubham Singhal, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
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That insight aligns with broader workforce trends.
—Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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To be sure, the mean numbers are a blunt assessment across the whole workforce.
—Tom Metcalf, Fortune Europe, 4 Apr. 2024
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That could be a problem as those teens get older and move into the full-time workforce.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 12 June 2026
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Millions of adults will need to add skills without leaving the workforce.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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But that still left the bulk of the direct government workforce.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
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Uniformed employees make up about a third of the city workforce.
—Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022
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Specifically, the share of the workforce that drives to work each day.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
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The stock of human capital in the workforce just gets worse.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
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Your workforce, your ideas and your business model should look the same, or better.
—Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
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When training programs are absent, so too is the long-term workforce.
—Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams, STAT, 19 June 2026
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As the younger workforce has grown, the system has stabilized.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
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As with most other fields, our workforce never stops learning.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
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Dorsey’s company laid off 40% of its workforce just over a month ago.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
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It's also known as workforce housing.
—Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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But bringing that tone straight into the workforce can backfire.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
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