How to Use jobless in a Sentence

jobless

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  • Quote of the week How high will the jobless rate go?
    — Ian King, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Initial jobless claims dropped from last week.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The jobless rate also ticked up.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • That’s the number of jobless claims last week which fell for the first time in a month.
    — Sergei Klebnikov, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • As though the jobless and houseless among us are no longer hungry.
    — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • Each of the nation’s largest metros has seen its jobless rate drop from last year.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Now, school’s out again, and Stephenson is again jobless.
    — ABC News, 18 June 2026
  • A lot of people are jobless or waiting to start working.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That was the state’s lowest jobless rate since the start of the pandemic.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Texas’ jobless rate was 4% for July.
    — Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Urban jobless rate rose to a six-month high, while year-on-year home prices fell at their fastest pace in nine years.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The state’s jobless rate has been climbing slowly but steadily for months.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Thursday brings the weekly look at initial jobless claims.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The jobless rate is holding for now but for how long is the million-dollar question.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The latest jobless claims data is expected to show a slight uptick.
    — Sean Conlon,sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Weekly jobless claims came in worse than expected.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The improvement marked the first time in nearly two years that the statewide jobless rate decreased.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
  • The latest jobless claims data is expected to show a slight uptick.
    — Jenni Reid,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Weekly jobless claims have been trending higher too.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • And what’s a married, jobless, middle-aged mouse to do in the face of such circumstances?
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Initial jobless claims remain low.
    — Victor Riparbelli, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Weekly jobless claims are also due before the opening bell.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Weekly initial jobless claims are also due and are expected to show a slight uptick.
    — Sean Conlon,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This year, thousands of tech workers were left jobless as a wave of layoffs swept the industry.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There will be data on weekly initial jobless claims on Thursday as well.
    — Sean Conlon,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The nation’s jobless rate is in the midst of a 30-month streak of being at or below 4%.
    — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • Now, Moore is jobless and at the center of one of the biggest college sports scandals of the year.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • On the data side, the only notable report is weekly jobless claims.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
  • If Fed officials had any doubt about cutting, the jobless claims report may have sealed the deal.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Florida’s jobless rate jumped to a four-year high in November.
    — Tom Hudson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026

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