How to Use unprofitable in a Sentence

unprofitable

adjective
Definition of unprofitablenext
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  • MissFresh has been unprofitable for the past three years.
    — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • And some of those deals have inevitably been unprofitable.
    — Vulture, 2 May 2023
  • The company was also unprofitable for eight of the last 10 years.
    — Ryan Mac, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Among the reasons is that hedging costs have made deals unprofitable, traders say.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The truth, though, is that many penny stocks are tied to tiny, shaky — or shady — companies that are unprofitable.
    — Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Noma was last unprofitable in 2017, when Redzepi closed the restaurant for about a year to build out its new location.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
  • This makes as-of-yet unprofitable firms deemed 'growth stocks' less attractive.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Then there was the awkward and unprofitable Cornish hen tabaka, for which Dolinsky flattened a small bird with a brick in a cast-iron pan.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
  • About half of these subsidies were then used to fish in grounds that would otherwise be unprofitable.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Then again, if the nature of the game is to keep users glued to their apps for as long as possible, this option would be considered unprofitable.
    — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Disney+ remains unprofitable, although the company has vowed to change that by next year.
    — Brooks Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Why does Prince own companies, some of them clearly unprofitable, all over the country?
    — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Thousands have already been cut in the effort to trim unprofitable units, according to the Journal.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Finding a book unprofitable, publishers wouldn’t deem it worth the storage space, and all copies would likely be gone in a slurry.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • The central bank plans to raise rates this year, which will drive up debt-servicing costs for unprofitable companies.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Traders have also been bidding up the stocks of much smaller, unprofitable companies that are trying to make a name for themselves in the AI arms race.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Fast-growing, unprofitable startups have been among the hardest hit.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • After deregulation, airlines dropped cities that had once served as hubs and pulled out of routes that were unprofitable.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, many of the creator economy vendors are unprofitable.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Of that group, the companies that were profitable at the time of IPO are down 11% on average, compared with a roughly 46% drop in the stocks of unprofitable companies.
    — Corrie Driebusch, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • In other words, Biden is promising to insulate them against low (read: unprofitable) prices.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Some unprofitable Gulf Coast plants were shut down last year after Hurricane Ida.
    — Tom Kloza For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The era of zombie companies may be coming to an end as interest rates rise, forcing unprofitable firms to burn more and more cash.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Fascinatingly, half—of the other six, five are unprofitable and one is close to profitable.
    — Karim Nurani, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Just five years ago, power company Steag tried to shut these plants down, deeming them unprofitable as cheap gas flowed from Russia.
    — Vanessa Guinan-Bank, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But the risk of chargers being unprofitable may slow the buildout of fast chargers and adoption of electric vehicles.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Simply put, rising borrowing costs have crippled many of the unprofitable tech stocks that Wood relies on.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • You will be marginalized, become unprofitable, and your market share will dwindle.
    — Ram Charan, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There’s been a recent rush into some of the riskiest trades, from FOMO call options to bets on crypto and unprofitable tech companies.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Even before Russia’s campaign, many mines — especially those owned by the states — were unprofitable and had to be shuttered.
    — Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022

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