as in useful
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose
this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation
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Recent Examples of employable
Rather than asking which skills AI will never replace, a better question is which skills are likely to remain relatively scarce, defensible, and employable as AI diffuses.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable.
—Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
—Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable.
—Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
—Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for employable
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The resulting material delivers an energy content comparable to anthracite coal, offering a potential pathway for turning difficult waste streams into useful resources.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 June 2026
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Our expert take The Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express is a low-fee card with generous cash-back rewards and useful ongoing benefits, such as a monthly Disney Bundle credit.—
Kelsey Neubauer,
CNBC,
19 June 2026
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However, in the latest year available, 2024, with tighter restrictions than in the past, one animal was shot by an officer.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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The cause and manner of death for Moore, 39, were not immediately available.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
20 June 2026
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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