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.
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Vimal Kapur,
Fortune,
12 Nov. 2025
These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition.
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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.
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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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If feedback arrives, stay curious and trim the excess, since structure turns spark into useful results.
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India’s government, which has long leveraged a hard line on Pakistan for domestic political advantage, enjoyed a rally-around-the-flag effect that gave it a useful boost one year after a worse-than-expected performance in national elections.
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Once, out of those 14 calls, the auto-attendant offered to have an agent call me back when one became available.
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Suarez complained of forearm tightness in his pitching arm last week and wasn’t available to throw against the Padres in San Diego.
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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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