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unprofitable

[uhn-prof-i-tuh-buhl] / ʌnˈprɒf ɪ tə bəl /




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Unlike sailings, though, they’re able to cancel unprofitable flights, and airfares are moving higher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The stock got crushed in early 2022 as the market cooled and interest rates rose, triggering a shift out of smaller, unprofitable growth companies.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Administrators PwC said this week it had a "high concentration" of inflexible, long-term leases that prevented it from reducing costs or scrapping unprofitable sites.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The trick is to make truthful revelation the rational choice and misrepresentation unprofitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Then they were silent again, for the idea of not having the ranch, the dry, stony desert of heartbreaking hillside and unprofitable hollow, was shocking to them.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck