How to Use at a loss in a Sentence

at a loss

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• Trump seems at a loss to bring the war to a successful conclusion.
  — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026
• Schools operating at a loss for multiple years could be at risk of closure.
  — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 16 July 2026
• The agency has operated at a loss over the past decade, the commission said.
  — Mike Snider, USA Today, 11 July 2026
• Fox was at a loss for words while speaking to the NBC Sports broadcast after the win.
  — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 19 July 2026
• So what would Mark Twain—a man never at a loss for opinions—make of America on the 250th anniversary of its birth?
  — Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
• An investor who sold XFLT any time after the IPO would have done so at a loss, and that loss has kept growing.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• This involves selling securities at a loss to offset capital gains or lower taxable income, resulting in a reduced tax liability.
  — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 21 July 2026
• The first version stumbled spectacularly—employees persuaded it to stock novelty tungsten cubes and sell them at a loss—but later iterations became considerably more competent.
  — Victor Dey, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Eutelsat, Europe's challenger to Elon Musk's Starlink, posted better-than-expected revenue figures on Friday but is still operating at a loss.
  — Sean Conlon,hugh Leask,justina Lee,sarah Min, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
• The same analysis found that 73% of Indiana nonprofits would have been at risk of operating at a loss between 2021 and 2023 without government grant funding.
  — Nia Bowers, IndyStar, 9 July 2026
• Jeff Lenard, a spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores, said Freedom Fuel’s rock bottom promotional price meant the chain was likely selling the gas at a loss.
  — Brian Slodysko, Fortune, 20 July 2026