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How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a claimant must not only be able to do a job 14 but must be able to sustain the job for a significant period of time
• holding that “substantial gainful activity means more 1 than merely the ability to find a job and physically perform it; it also requires the ability to hold 2 the job for a significant period of time”
• “The unsuccessful work attempt concept was designed as an equitable means of disregarding 20 relatively brief work attempts that do not demonstrate sustained substantial gainful employment.”
• “We are persuaded by the reasoning of our sister circuits that substantial gainful activity means more than merely the ability to find a job and physically perform it; it also requires the ability to hold the job for a significant period of time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).