Example Sentences

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“Our focus remains on working productively with the government to ensure all Americans benefit from safe, reliable AI,” a spokeswoman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

"The extent to which this large, increasingly educated and aspirational cohort is productively absorbed into the labour market will determine whether this massive and continuing demographic dividend translates into an economic dividend," the report says.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

It tees up Meta for one of the biggest trends into 2026: enterprises actually using AI productively to boost earnings.

From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025

If employees can do a task faster and more productively with a better tool, they can hold down costs, and demand for these services might rise over time.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

While Einstein and Hubble were productively unraveling the large-scale structure of the cosmos, others were struggling to understand something closer to hand but in its way just as remote: the tiny and ever-mysterious atom.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson