unprofitable

Example Sentences

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The company still was regarded as a unicorn in the world of small, unprofitable biotechs.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

It shed a number of unprofitable events and struck a series of deals targeting more profitable categories.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

The women told the BBC they ran up debts as a result of fitting out new stores and running unprofitable stores that lost money, in addition to Covid loans and Vodafone's fines system.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Spokeswoman Elisabeth Diana said there are 2.9 unprofitable users for each profitable one based on data from the past month.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Mr. Sharpe and the new investors made us sensible of how unprofitable were the products of crayon, quill, and fiddle.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson