for profit

Example Sentences

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Anthropic doesn’t consider being for-profit inconsistent with its founders’ safety mission.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

This isn’t unheard of: Some universities already have taxable, for-profit arms, whether it’s in real estate development, hospitality or startup incubators.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Such hospice providers are not owned by private-equity firms or for-profit entities.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

The report noted that the Oakland-based healthcare system’s corporate pension, Kaiser Permanente Group Trust, holds assets in CoreCivic and the GEO Group, the two largest for-profit prison corporations in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Technical academies are well represented, most of them from the for-profit sector that has been under scrutiny in recent years because students too often emerge with tens of thousands of dollars of debt—but not jobs.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove