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Recent Examples of unemployable
Many of these people struggle with mental illness and are unemployable, according to Osten, who represents several poor rural communities in New London County.
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 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
Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
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Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 2 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
Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemployable
Adjective
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The only Heat players unavailable on Saturday were Nikola Jovic (low back injury management), Terry Rozier (not with team) and Andrew Wiggins (left big toe sesamoiditis).—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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Nedeljkovic started his second straight game for the Sharks as Yaroslav Askarov, injured earlier this week, remained unavailable with a lower-body injury.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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If such satellites did collide, this could trigger a cascade of collisions that could render regions of Earth orbit temporarily unusable in a scenario called the Kessler syndrome.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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But the tunnels would then be contaminated and unusable, and the team would need to be careful about its own safety.—
Matthew Bunn,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Sanders’ proclamations state that conducting an election to meet that requirement was both impracticable and unduly burdensome, without further explaining her reasoning.—
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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One of the vendors whose contract with Cal OES is ending said that the agency has still not provided evidence that the existing regional Next Generation 911 system is unsafe or nonfunctional.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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There wasn’t much else to do considering the Wi-Fi, now free for all Rapid Rewards members, was nonfunctional.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Unemployable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemployable. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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