Example Sentences

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WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

The most recent Office for National Statistics figures, for 2018, classed 25.2% of households in the city as workless, compared to 17.1% across Scotland, and a British average of 14.3%.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2020

I spent my afternoons in the lodging houses, pocket Bible in hand, going from man to man as they sat there, workless, homeless, dejected and in despair.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander