as in joblessness
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Recent Examples of unemployment
Black residents had lower high-school-graduation rates and higher unemployment rates than white residents, and Ideo’s more surface-level solutions could do little to address that reality.
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Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
In a crucial chase sequence, Bond will have to deliver two hundred packages in a Honda Civic by 7 p.m. or risk unemployment.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Compared to 2024, banks will be tested in situations where there’s a smaller decline in the country’s gross domestic product, a smaller rise in the unemployment rate, and less aggressive declines in asset prices.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Factors like a low unemployment rate and high average income help residents purchase property, pay down debt and save for the future.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
In a crucial chase sequence, Bond will have to deliver two hundred packages in a Honda Civic by 7 p.m. or risk unemployment.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Compared to 2024, banks will be tested in situations where there’s a smaller decline in the country’s gross domestic product, a smaller rise in the unemployment rate, and less aggressive declines in asset prices.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Factors like a low unemployment rate and high average income help residents purchase property, pay down debt and save for the future.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unemployment
Noun
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The initial Russian campaign represents completely irrational force employment and, in many cases, frankly, nonemployment.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2022
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The nonemployment crisis of the 2010s and the opioid crisis of the 2010s weren’t completely separate.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
4 Dec. 2020
Noun
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Murphy, appointed by former President Joe Biden, did not categorically ban third-country removals.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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Check out my top picks for data removal services here.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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Both the Associated Press and NBC News reported the dismissals on June 27, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter and a letter signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi to one of the attorneys.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
29 June 2025
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The recent dismissal of Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to serve as Librarian of Congress, signals a troubling disregard for the importance and neutrality of libraries.—
Linda Johnson,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2025
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“Unemployment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unemployment. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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