profitable
adjective
prof·it·able
ˈprä-fə-tə-bəl 
ˈpräf-tə-bəl
: affording profits : yielding advantageous returns or results
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Examples of profitable in a Sentence
The movie was very profitable.
selling real estate on the side turned out to be a profitable venture for the stay-at-home mom
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The programs help airlines stay profitable. – CNBC’s Alex Harring, Rebecca Picciotto, Jordan Novet, Leslie Josephs and Hugh Son contributed to this report.
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Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
Reddit has inked major deals with Google and OpenAI to share platform data to train their AI models, as part of its effort to become profitable.
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Addressing these challenges can lead to a successful and profitable high-ticket dropshipping business.
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This may have caused Donald Miller to overlook DeAngelis’s character flaws, since his dealings with Allied were profitable.
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Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
Reddit has inked major deals with Google and OpenAI to share platform data to train their AI models, as part of its effort to become profitable.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
Addressing these challenges can lead to a successful and profitable high-ticket dropshipping business.
—Polina Beletskaya, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
This may have caused Donald Miller to overlook DeAngelis’s character flaws, since his dealings with Allied were profitable.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2024
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profitable
adjective
prof·it·able
ˈprä-fə-tə-bəl
: affording profits : yielding advantageous returns or results
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