for profit

Example Sentences

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Collectors who bought the work of up-and-coming artists hoping to flip them for profit got badly burned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

“I’d like to see Greg Abel confront the issues and outline a plan for profit and revenue improvement.”

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” put a name to what people had been feeling: tech companies extracting value from data about our lives and reshaping our behavior for profit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The problem for CME’s stock, however, is that Wall Street was anticipating an exceptional first-quarter earnings report, so estimates for profit and revenue had climbed during the quarter.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck