How to Use capital-intensive in a Sentence

capital-intensive

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• This is always one of the most capital-intensive times for a launch company.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• The bottom line: Growing plants indoors is energy- and capital-intensive and is a difficult business to scale with VC.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
• What's next: Expect to see more capital-intensive climate startups with high burn rates trip up in a frozen funding market.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024
• And the more uncertainty there is, the less likely that investors or lenders will be prepared to finance capital-intensive projects.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Mar. 2025
• Roughly 1 million units are subject to the new capital-intensive rules.
  — Diana Olick, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
• After all, film is a capital-intensive business that is hit-driven.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
• The capital-intensive purchase wound up tanking Mattel’s stock price within two years.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
• The clean energy system of the future will be capital-intensive, which means that its behavior will be highly influenced by where funds are willing and able to flow.
  — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
• Brands handle their own shipping, and Flip handles the less capital-intensive business of customer service and returns.
  — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Again, given the capital-intensive needs of PACE programs, the results are unsurprising.
  — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• The first is meant to bring solutions to suppliers, and the second will help those same suppliers finance those capital-intensive improvements.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Texas passed a law that enabled big projects to avoid school taxes, which helped attract chipmaking plants, wind power farms and other capital-intensive investments.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
• To a certain extent, that’s to be expected given the bearish market for technology stocks in the last two years and the risks involved with novel, capital-intensive business models.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• The stock lost more than half its value last year and the company has been reckoning with slowing sales while also trying to move deeper into the capital-intensive business of chip fabrication.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
• Seabed nodules were located at profound depth and pressure; extracting them was therefore a complex and capital-intensive process.
  — Time, 17 June 2025
• Bootstrapping a business is hard; bootstrapping a capital-intensive frozen food business is even harder.
  — Forbes Membership, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The chilly funding environment continues to catch up with capital-intensive climate tech startups seeking to scale.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 24 July 2024
• Higher interest rates and rising costs have hurt the companies in what are often capital-intensive industries.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2023
• Clean energy supply chains are long, complex, and capital-intensive.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• These capital-intensive models need skilled operators, technicians, and engineers who take longer to train and will demand higher wages.
  — Steven Dudash, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
• In capital-intensive fields such as biotechnology, little has changed.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
• Here’s how: • Larger loans: Real estate is capital-intensive.
  — Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• That background in industrial systems and capital-intensive projects positioned them to bring scalable fiber processing to a U.S. hemp market still largely operating on mom-and-pop farms and as pet projects.
  — Kasi Martin, Sourcing Journal, 9 July 2025
• Higher borrowing costs burden the renewables sector because the projects can be capital-intensive.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
• That includes a move away from capital-intensive AI model research to focus instead on market-ready offerings like a new business-to-consumer interactive app.
  — Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• All this focus on the long term is possible because of Rebellion’s unusual and perhaps unique position in the capital-intensive gaming industry.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The pivot avoids repeating capital-intensive mistakes and signals a new chapter driven by execution, not ego.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
• New cement plants are also capital-intensive and require extensive fundraising to construct.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
• Now, the shift towards a more normalized rate environment has had a significant impact on shale oil producers, many of whom rely on debt to fund their capital-intensive operations.
  — Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
• In her chapter of the handbook, the Tax Foundation’s Erica York explains that our tax code is punishing capital-intensive sectors like manufacturing.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024