profitless

Example Sentences

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For a profitless private company eyeing the public markets for the first time, OpenAI this week was remarkably cavalier toward a charismatic megafauna of the Hollywood ecosystem, Disney.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

“The profitless dot-com bubble saw a 266% rally in the S&P 500 vs only 85% so far despite strong AI earnings growth,” the Jefferies team wrote.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Sticking with durable, high-quality stocks isn’t always easy, especially when speculative markets make winners out of shiny new objects, including recent initial public offerings External link and profitless tech companies.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Fear of rising inflation and recession has driven stock investors toward conservative assets and away from the risky, profitless companies that were the targets of many blank-check mergers.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

Consider, for example, the profitless linguistic difficulty of problems 1-6, whose quantitative difficulties are simply those of:— 1.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)