profitably

Example Sentences

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Amazon has a long history of successful investing, and of profitably renting out the computing heft that it builds.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

While the public may think of recycling as a largely physical process, it’s actually a market: a function of how well a material can be profitably turned into something else.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

But it may have found a solution: With the help of a German entrepreneur, cemetery officials believe they can profitably augment the property by turning the deceased into gardening soil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

After writing the lyrics for “Gypsy” and “West Side Story,” he subsequently wrote the scores for a series of musicals that expanded the parameters of the subjects a musical might profitably explore.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Anyway, through the same flush war years, John Hughes had hustled profitably enough to be able to open a pretty good gambling house.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey