unprofitable
Example Sentences
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The company has reported cumulative losses of nearly $160 million since going public, through the end of July, and remains unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It stated that all five New Zealand provinces were cumulatively unprofitable across the past six years, with current holders the Hurricanes posting a loss of $1.4m in 2023 and almost $2m in 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
A transcript from FactSet picked that word up as “infructuous,” which means fruitless or unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Among those was a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises -- long a guarantee of lifelong so-called "iron rice bowl" employment for millions but which drained public finances.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Suddenly I realized that this unprofitable task of his was probably nothing more than a method of whiling away the early morning hours, much as other insomniacs do crossword puzzles.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
