as in out of work
having no job the plant closings left a significant portion of the town's population unemployed

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Recent Examples of unemployed Layoff activity thankfully doesn’t seem to be accelerating, but those who are unemployed are having a really hard time getting back into the workforce. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025 Keita notes the majority of Africa's population is under 35 years old and millions are unemployed and frustrated with the status quo. Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025 The protests come as more than a third of young people in Morocco under the age of 25 are unemployed, according to the country’s statistics agency. Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 Many were families of unemployed breadwinners who had never needed the government’s help before. Tracy Roof, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unemployed
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jobless
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  • Continuing jobless claims, which are submitted by people who have filed for at least a week or more of unemployment, have been hovering at around four-year highs, Department of Labor data shows.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • When researchers compared jobless rates for recent graduates to those with more experience, new grads seemed to be having a slightly tougher time landing roles, but the gap wasn’t big enough to suggest technology is the main factor.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Unemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemployed. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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