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Adjective
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Over the month the labor force grew by 17,000, the same as the number of people qualified as unemployed.—
Jim Turner,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026 -
Casting has not yet been announced for the musical, in which six unemployed steel workers decide to make money by creating their own male strip show.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.—
Meredith Maran,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Yet, frequent relocations and licensing barriers leave many underemployed or pushed out of the workforce entirely.—
Brooke Creek,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Subemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subemployed. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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