Example Sentences

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These exercises in unproductivity have come at a cost.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2022

He started solidly this season, but slipped into a trough of unproductivity with five turnovers and a dismal 58.3 completion percentage over the last three games.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2020

I use this same tool constantly in my job, asking myself and teammates if there is actual evidence pointing to a problem, and saving us hours of unproductivity.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2018

Perhaps there is no longer such a thing as purposeful unproductivity.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2017

As this numbness increased and general weariness of the hand set in, there came a gradual flagging of my creative impulse until a very normal unproductivity supervened.

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham