unprofitable
Example Sentences
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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
It is also closing unprofitable stores in North America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
