unprofitable
Example Sentences
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My main adjustment has been taking profits on richly valued, unprofitable small-cap growth stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The company has reported cumulative losses of nearly $160 million since going public, through the end of July, and remains unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It stated that all five New Zealand provinces were cumulatively unprofitable across the past six years, with current holders the Hurricanes posting a loss of $1.4m in 2023 and almost $2m in 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Among those was a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises -- long a guarantee of lifelong so-called "iron rice bowl" employment for millions but which drained public finances.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 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
