for profit

Example Sentences

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Manufactured scarcity created ripe conditions to flip the goods for profit online, and for disorder.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

BofA warned that given almost all the bears are now back into the stock market, early June could be “ripe for profit taking.”

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The government is also pushing through reforms aimed at tightening rules to run a school for profit so that only long-term, high-quality operators remain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Together, they have made housing a more lucrative investment, incentivising the buying and selling of homes for profit.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The more they examined the individual bonds, the more they came to see patterns in the loans that could be exploited for profit.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis