as in unsuccessful
producing no results
an unprofitable effort to find the information
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Recent Examples of unprofitable
As a barometer for capital flows and market confidence, Goldman’s beat underscores how volatility, while unsettling, isn’t always unprofitable.
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Without a clear understanding of financial metrics like cash flow, profit margins, and breakeven points, a business can quickly become unprofitable.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines have closed, laying off tens of thousands of workers.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Without a clear understanding of financial metrics like cash flow, profit margins, and breakeven points, a business can quickly become unprofitable.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines have closed, laying off tens of thousands of workers.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprofitable
Adjective
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Each unsuccessful vote will be burned in a furnace with chemicals to dye the plume a black color.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2025
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Hutchinson had filed numerous unsuccessful appeals, many focused on mental health problems linked to his Army service.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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These results, though significant, don’t necessarily mean that efforts to effectively mitigate deepfakes are futile.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
30 Apr. 2025
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The similarly futile attempts to portray John Walker as a flawed but good man, despite his callous rage and murderous tendencies?—
Nola Pfau,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In one sense, Henry is the kind of useless man who creates hard times with his own passivity.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
30 Apr. 2025
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Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin Like many a controversial Y2K trend, the useless hip belt has made its way back into the sartorial zeitgeist with trendsetters like Emily Ratajkowski and Dua Lipa reviving the aesthetic in recent seasons.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Unprofitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprofitable. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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