profit-making
Example Sentences
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It seems more likely that transferring substantial resources from the profit-making entity to the nonprofit would leave both underfunded and weakened.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Elon Musk faced fiery questioning Wednesday in his court showdown with OpenAI, as he insisted that the maker of ChatGPT had fooled him by turning what was an altruistic pursuit into a profit-making juggernaut.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Valued at roughly $380 billion, Anthropic is legally required to balance profit-making with advancing the company’s public benefit of “responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
The regulator says it also wants to understand how firms balance profit-making with safeguards, how parents are informed and whether vulnerable users are adequately protected.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
All the affairs of government were conducted upon purely business principles, just as though the country had been a huge commercial concern, save for the fact that the chief object was efficiency and not profit-making.
From The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror by Griffith, George Chetwynd
