as in income
an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property the struggling business didn't create much revenue during its first year of operation

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Recent Examples of revenue For decades, mechanical royalties from a deep cut on a popular album could get a writer enough to buy a house, but today, streaming revenue on even a viral hit may not be enough to cover rent. Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025 The rest—including in May 2023, when Nvidia had the biggest positive earnings surprise a company has ever delivered, beating expectations handily and then offering a quarterly revenue forecast that was $4 billion above expectations—is history. Jim Cramer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025 By comparison, revenues in early June were 25% ahead of 2024, per Comscore. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025 The Rays had revenue of $311 million in 2024 playing at the Trop, 28th in MLB. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for revenue
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Noun
  • Striking out on your own can result in much more income than holding a steady job with steady pay, but many entrepreneurs won’t enjoy that premium, according to a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • While reshoring American manufacturing and protecting domestic jobs may be the goal, some observers are concerned that these policy steps are being taken at the expense of moderate-income Americans, many of whom are struggling to keep up.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Schermer discussed his work as founder and CEO of Project Healthy Minds, a non-profit that addresses the barriers to finding mental health care and offers tools to make accessing services easier.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • For chipmakers Nvidia and AMD, meanwhile, the demand was for a slice of future profits.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
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  • At the same time, Tesla’s core EV business has faced headwinds in 2025, including large market-cap declines and profitability pressure that have sharpened scrutiny of whether Optimus can deliver commercial returns at scale.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Over that time, investors made a 14% return after fees, the firm said.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t pull over in the roundabout Roundabouts with a single lane of traffic in each direction are fairly simple – yield to traffic in the roundabout, wait for a gap in traffic and go through, Bryson said.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The hope was that the Fed's easing policy would be accompanied by a decline in yields on longer-term Treasurys, such as the benchmark 10-year note , which heavily influences mortgages.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Revenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revenue. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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