How to Use productivity in a Sentence

productivity

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  • There has been an increase in productivity.
  • The company is looking for ways to improve worker productivity.
  • The country has low agricultural productivity.
  • This, in turn, leads to a sneaky productivity that is not the main point, but a happy by-product.
    — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But don’t be too quick to proclaim that a new era of productivity has emerged.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The United States has been an exception to the weak productivity gains over the past year.
    — Paul Wiseman, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Once your work — er, day — is done, rate your productivity level on a scale from one to 10.
    — Katarina Avendaño, Good Housekeeping, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And fresh data this week shows that productivity is growing by the fastest pace in three years.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • To amp up your productivity, add the Magic Keyboard to your cart.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There were flashes of offensive productivity, and the Aztecs had leads in all three … and were inevitably doomed by a long drought.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But Hydra was a spot of respite for Cohen, which led to his unique productivity.
    — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Lock away your phone for 1 minute to 10 days, forcing a tech break and boosting productivity.
    — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2023
  • And like a lot of productivity gains happen and new markets open up.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • When the snow began to melt, his productivity levels rose once again.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • But at a time when efficiency and productivity seem to be at the center of our lives, why do so many of us feel behind and not enough?
    — TIME, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Although your focus is on work and productivity right now, this is a good day to relax.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 2 May 2024
  • My worry is for those increases in productivity to put people out of work and make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • That’s because the offense has improved its productivity in the red zone.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Learn how to improve the health and productivity of backyard citrus trees.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But in his absence, the Warriors missed more than his productivity.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • But what does the science say about clutter and productivity?
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Studies of productivity in work-from-home arrangements are all over the map.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Almonte had shown flashes of productivity in the bullpen the last two seasons, though the 29-year-old had battled injuries and was out of minor league options.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Google announced last week that A.I. was coming to its productivity apps like Docs and Sheets, which businesses pay to use.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But the influx of new technologies designed to improve productivity is on the rise.
    — Addie Swartz, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The Asus Vivobook Pro 15 straddles the line between productivity and leisure.
    — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • At the halfway point of six month British trial of a four-day week, most respondents reported there hasn’t been a loss in productivity.
    — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The choice is especially acute for those who work outdoors and are paid on an hourly or productivity basis.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 13 July 2023
  • Enslaved persons, as Aristotle saw them, could be seen as a public good, to be used by the elite for the productivity of society.
    — Monti Datta, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The technologists pushing the AI buildout are heralding AI not just as having the potential to transform business productivity, but as one of the most important developments in human history.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025

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