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
Tariffs are being imposed, there are strong impediments to any movement of labor, and economic coercion is being used practically everywhere.
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Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
Approval and economic woes The polling numbers, released on June 22 come only days after Trump saw similar low marks in a poll released by PBS News/NPR/Marist on June 18.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
The agricultural sector had an economic rationale for its practices; the home kit industry has a consumer convenience rationale for its.
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Robert Glatter,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Burnham is expected to make a speech next week outlining some of his economic plans.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
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Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
Approval and economic woes The polling numbers, released on June 22 come only days after Trump saw similar low marks in a poll released by PBS News/NPR/Marist on June 18.
—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
The agricultural sector had an economic rationale for its practices; the home kit industry has a consumer convenience rationale for its.
—
Robert Glatter,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Burnham is expected to make a speech next week outlining some of his economic plans.
—
ABC News,
23 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for economic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for economic
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Claude has been gross margin positive since the day Anthropic began selling it, profitable on the first dollar of customer spend rather than the thousandth.
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And as the 2023 dual writers’ and actors’ strikes thinned out theatrical lineups, that aversion to uncertainty became a push for reliable and profitable hits.
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Cloud infrastructure has proven to be highly lucrative for hyperscaler peers Amazon, Microsoft and Google, and Zuckerberg has hinted of late that Meta could be headed in that direction.
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That might mean gutting labor or safety standards that would delay the technology’s rollout, ignoring anticompetitive acts, or providing favors in the form of cheap loans or lucrative government contracts.
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“Economic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economic. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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