How to Use take a loss in a Sentence

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• Or willing to take a loss or willing to withdraw some of their forces.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2022
• If a stock price goes in the wrong direction, traders must take a loss or wait for a reversal.
  — Catherine Brock, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• But Clevelanders know perhaps better than most how to take a loss and keep right on going.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• Someone has to take a loss somewhere if fossil fuels are going to be left in the ground rather than extracted and sold.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• Owners unwilling to take a loss aren’t listing, leaving both sellers and buyers stuck.
  — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• So, anyone who bought gold bars near a price peak but sells during a dollar rally will almost certainly take a loss on paper.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• But sellers, not wanting to take a loss, often hold out for months or even years, before grudgingly starting to accept lower bids.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• If a company wants to take a loss on a product in hopes of gaining market share, the free-marketer’s thinking goes, that’s its prerogative.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
• If a company wants to take a loss on a product in hopes of gaining market share, the free-marketeer’s thinking goes, that’s its prerogative.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• To give you an idea of what the Rangers wasted, Folty became only the third pitcher in club history to take a loss after posting those kinds of numbers.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2021
• As plans are under no obligation to take a loss, their other choice is to exit the market, which from the patient’s perspective means that all the benefits disappear.
  — Casey B. Mulligan, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Not every lender likes to accept inventory as collateral because if the borrower cannot sell the items, then the lender will most likely struggle to do so as well and take a loss.
  — Phil Dushey, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• So any buyer who acquired them at fair value, likely closer to $200 billion, would take a loss so big that the bank’s capital would be at lower than regulatory thresholds and could get shut down.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Mizzou, which has also yet to take a loss, begins its crusade across a difficult SEC schedule this Saturday against Alabama.
  — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
• Ars doesn’t have price estimates for the portable Valve console at this point but says that the company might take a loss on every SteamPal console to drive revenue via Steam software.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 May 2021
• The total value of the city’s homes has fallen by roughly $60 billion since last summer, causing about 1 in 8 recent sellers to take a loss, real-estate website Redfin reported last week.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2023
• If those 30 banks were liquidated today, for whatever reason, the FDIC insurance fund would take a loss to cover a portion of the customer deposits.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Girls soccer No movement in the Class 6A rankings with South Grand Prairie being the only team to take a loss this week against Arlington Martin.
  — Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
• Because of Village Lighting’s unique buying schedule, the company had to take a loss on about 40% of its annual sales because the orders and pricing were already contractually agreed upon when many of the new duties went into effect.
  — Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025