cash cow

Example Sentences

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The company’s advertising arm has long been a lucrative cash cow that is still managing double-digit growth rates.

From The Wall Street Journal

To protect the government’s cash cow, politicians avoided meddling in PdVSA, which was run by highly trained engineers and other professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This is their cash cow. They're not going to let it go easily."

From BBC

The bulk of Samsung’s profits once came from smartphones, but the semiconductor business has now come back as its major cash cow, accounting for more than half of its earnings recently.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alphabet is now “winning everywhere,” wrote Wlodarczak, adding that the company’s cash cow, google search, has been resilient, Gemini is improving, and YouTube is the world’s largest video streamer.

From Barron's