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
• But in this premiere, the cast is largely at a loss on who to target at the first roundtable.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
• The claim that followed was that every token went out the door at a loss, so scale could only deepen the hole.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 17 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
• Kumail Nanjiani took to Bluesky to pay tribute, but found himself at a loss for words.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2026
• This does not mean accepting every request or running your business at a loss to serve clients with financial needs.
  — Mark Berookim, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 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
• Baitz’s verbal gymnastics aren’t a good fit for Harris, who is at his most eloquent when his characters are at a loss for words.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
• At the time, Amazon was undercutting book publishers by buying their e-books and then selling them at a loss.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026
• The Sekai team was at a loss, and Therain recalls calling his wife crying in the lobby of a hotel in Tokyo.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026
• There’s an old story about a shoemaker who’s selling shoes at a loss under the misguided belief that the volume of sales will make up for the drop in revenue.
  — Bar Maimon, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 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
• That guaranteed the teams with revenue, with brokers benefiting from a markup for popular games but taking the risk that tickets to less popular games would sell at a loss, or not at all.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 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
• Investors often wait until December to tax-loss harvest — or sell investments at a loss and use their losses to offset gains in other investments.
  — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
• After a weekend sweep of the Washington Nationals, a step up in competition has left the Marlins at a loss.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
• However, stocks that performed below their purchase price can be sold at a loss to offset capital gains and reduce your overall tax liability—a process called tax-loss harvesting.
  — Paula Thielen, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
• Maeda said that Rakuten Medical’s Japan branch is profitable, though the global entity operates at a loss due to high research spending.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 26 Oct. 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
• State subsidies and mandates from Beijing have also encouraged excess production and cutthroat price wars, forcing them to turn to export markets and resulting in nearly a third of Chinese industrial firms operating at a loss.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Sep. 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
• High cash value life insurance is increasingly part of that strategy, providing tax-advantaged, accessible capital that can help fund operations, seize opportunities or weather disruptions without selling core assets at a loss.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 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
• Nearly 30 percent of Chinese industrial firms operate at a loss, up from 20 percent before the COVID-19 pandemic.
  — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
• It, and three other airline stocks, were sold by Warren Buffett at a loss in the first quarter of 2020 amid a massive reduction in air travel as the COVID-19 pandemic was gaining steam.
  — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026
• Topco Scientific, a Taiwanese materials integrator that works closely with TSMC, opened an outpost in Phoenix in 2022, operating at a loss for years until TSMC’s first fab was up and running.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026