lose money
idiom
: to spend more money than one earns
The company has been losing money for the past several years.
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Audits with recommendations that remain unresolved, while California continues to lose money to potential waste and fraud.
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Julie Watts, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
With prediction market platforms also charging trading fees on a per-contract basis, users almost always lose money in the long run, just like with sportsbooks.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Where some players are covertly betting, others are facing threats from bettors who lose money on their performance.
—Jasper Craven, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Policies on what treatments exist in the future Drug companies lose money developing new antibiotics.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
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Julie Watts, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
With prediction market platforms also charging trading fees on a per-contract basis, users almost always lose money in the long run, just like with sportsbooks.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Where some players are covertly betting, others are facing threats from bettors who lose money on their performance.
—Jasper Craven, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Policies on what treatments exist in the future Drug companies lose money developing new antibiotics.
—André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
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