Definition of employablenext
as in useful
capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation

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Recent Examples of employable Rather than asking which skills AI will never replace, a better question is which skills are likely to remain relatively scarce, defensible, and employable as AI diffuses. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026 All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable. Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025 These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition. Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025 As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed. Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for employable
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Adjective
  • Later in the day, your mind finds a clever solution, a useful contact or a whole new point of view.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • While Mickey Moniak and Freddy Peralta and Kris Bubic are useful pieces to move, these squads don’t really have the rosters to shake up the deadline by embracing a more aggressive sale.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 1 July 2026
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  • More information for patients — including detail on the health plans and providers affected by the negotiations — is available on Cigna’s and UC Davis Health’s websites.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • According to Hasbro, all of the items will be available at most major retailers by mid-July.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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“Employable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/employable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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