unemployable

adjective

Definition of unemployablenext
as in unavailable

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Recent Examples of unemployable In response to a market-moving piece of dystopian fan fiction fearmongering about AI, Citadel Securities put out its own brief on the historical precedent for AI’s impact and the improbability that the technology will render humans unemployable any more than the typewriter or the internet did. — Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026 Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026 It was founded by a bunch of twentysomething slackers who were, by traditional metrics, unemployable anywhere else. — Scott Dikkers, Air Mail, 20 Dec. 2025 But then Markey began to have the usual doubts of an unemployable hack. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unemployable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemployable
  1. unavailable
  2. unusable
  3. impracticable
  4. nonfunctional
Adjective
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID dashboard, new data on strains is currently unavailable due to low sequencing submissions.
    — Christy Santhosh, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Nearly every major contributor was unavailable after being used to the brink over the course of the homestand.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of unavailable
Adjective
  • There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Phoenix Semiconductor engineers helped NAVAIR recover a supply of unusable legacy chips for a safety-critical system on the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of unusable
Adjective
  • The Republican appointees said the legal protections apply only in formal immigration proceedings, and would be too impracticable and burdensome to apply at the border.
    — Leah Litman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Steer clear of impracticable, luxurious purchases that might tempt you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Definition of impracticable
Adjective
  • Days said the focus of the project is not changing the machine's appearance or replacing a piece of Pittsburgh history, but repairing the internal components that have long been nonfunctional.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Peekachu, for example, has a nonfunctional right eye, while Secord enjoys moving enrichment items around the habitat with her mouth.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of nonfunctional

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“Unemployable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemployable. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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