How to Use earnings in a Sentence
earnings
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Disney’s fourth quarter earnings were a mix of good and bad news.
—Frank Pallotta, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
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Stock prices tend to track with corporate earnings over the long term.
—Stan Choe, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
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Last quarter’s earnings show that the reminders will linger for quite a while.
—Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2020
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If the costs of high-quality child care could be capped at 7% of earnings?
—Nicole Rodgers, Fortune, 28 May 2021
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Banks earnings are a good place to get an early read on how consumers are faring.
—New York Times, 29 July 2022
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Those who select a winner on that first bet find the earnings in their accounts as cash.
—Xl Media, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
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Stitch Fix’s third quarter earnings call will be held on June 8.
—Shwanika Narayan, SFChronicle.com, 2 June 2020
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Disney Plus was one of the highlights of the earnings report.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Aug. 2021
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In the four years since the last election, Facebook’s earnings and user growth have soared.
—Barbara Ortutay and David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2020
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This will help folks get credentials and skills and the earnings to enter the market for home buying.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
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Since the markets have barely begun to price in a recession and so a fall in earnings, that would hurt.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 19 June 2022
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Since the age of 5, the twin brothers have been filling cups in their front yard and donating their earnings.
—David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2020
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In states where gas now costs at least $5 a gallon, that works out to 50 gallons worth of gas on the low end ad earnings.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 June 2022
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The proof is the share of the GDP pie now flowing to corporate earnings.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2021
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The firm has slowed hiring, Coleman said in the Q&A portion of the earnings call.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
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The graduate reaps the benefit of the loan — the degree which will lead to higher earnings — and the taxpayers pick up the tab.
—Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2020
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When/if the money starts rolling in, Curley says that Podhero will reach out to podcasters to send them their share of the earnings.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired, 10 June 2020
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The attorney wrote that her client also sold items such as candy on the streets for the church and turned her earnings over to IVM.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
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That would happen in July, during the June 2022 earnings call.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 29 Apr. 2022
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While Uncle Sam used take a cut of the earnings, a new law stopped the practice after the 2016 Rio Games.
—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2021
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