as in profitable
yielding a profit
unfortunately, raising employees' salaries would not be economic—the business would have to fold
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Recent Examples of economic
After a cataclysmic economic collapse ended Outfest in 2023, the team behind it unionized amid the push to come back.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
There was a research group at the University of Wisconsin that recently released a report that was written about by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that tried to quantify the economic impact in the Madison area of the team not playing well.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
The emissions trend is partly driven by China’s economic slowdown, Carbon Brief data showed, as construction and manufacturing have fallen, but also by rapid growth in renewable energy and electrification of the economy.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Energy experts say those economic forces will continue the expansion of clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
There was a research group at the University of Wisconsin that recently released a report that was written about by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that tried to quantify the economic impact in the Madison area of the team not playing well.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
The emissions trend is partly driven by China’s economic slowdown, Carbon Brief data showed, as construction and manufacturing have fallen, but also by rapid growth in renewable energy and electrification of the economy.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 11 Nov. 2025
Energy experts say those economic forces will continue the expansion of clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for economic
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The Yahoo Boys promises to be an in-depth work of narrative nonfiction that explores the material conditions that make these scams profitable, and the lives of four such scammers in Lagos, Nigeria.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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But the Fed seems to view its job as ensuring that banks are profitable, even if that comes at the expense of people living in precarity.—
Aaron Klein,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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While the $52M mark is a 4% drop from the previous week, and about 7% down from the same time – Week 32 – last year, those slips reflect the always-lucrative Christmas week highs (Christmas fell within Week 32 last season).—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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But she was fired from her lucrative job in New York, and is forced to move back in with her mother, who lives in Utah in a house that Bea pays for.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Economic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economic. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.
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