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Muted consumer demand across China’s economy has further cut into hiring as companies struggle to eke out enough profit to hire or raise wages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Analysts had predicted the company would go there for the first time since 2012, but it managed to eke out $784 million—a precipitous drop from the previous quarter’s $12.4 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Tesla is expected to eke out some growth in 2026, selling about 1.7 million cars.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

At once straight-faced, sacrilegious and scatological, “Team America” needed nine tries to eke past the MPAA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

I've struggled for days to eke out extra time from him.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Finding a fresh plot twist is the only way it ekes out a draw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

Once juggling multiple odd jobs, Helal Uddin now ekes out a living running a food cart.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

Today the 70-year-old struggles with respiratory illness and ekes out a living ferrying people and parcels on his scooter.

From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022

That he does before surrendering to his psychological flaw: his inability to be content with whatever success he ekes out.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

How "surreptitious" I ask of this scribe, who ekes not the lack of reason by a superfluity of railing, when I sent out some 24,000—30,000 advertisements and published my project in the literary papers?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The stock has eked out a 6.2% gain so far this year, as some investors still worry about deeper pressures on consumers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The Dodgers eked across a run in the third inning on a Freddie Freeman groundout with runners on second and third.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The millennial sex therapist eked out a narrow win in the Democratic primary election in March and will advance to a runoff with the second-place finisher, sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia, on Tuesday.

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

The Hangzhou-based company eked out adjusted net profit of 86 million yuan, equivalent to $12.7 million, in the three months ended March, down sharply from 29.85 billion yuan a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Each winter the waters withdrew, leaving behind a thick new layer of mud so black and fertile that two crops grew in Egypt while other lands eked out one.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

As a young man, Francisco traversed it on horseback, eking out a living by draining resin from the towering pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

He was ultimately the only plausible option for voters worried that Hong’s controversies risked blowing the general election and ended up eking it out by less than half a percentage point.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026

Hoan worked from the same slab of concrete for a decade, eking out a modest living hawking colourful bouquets.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

As much as my spirits were lifted by eking out some breathing room, I was still deep in the hurt locker and ready for the day to end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Indeed, the process of eking out those new notes took so long that we don’t even know in which century it happened.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall