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Recent Examples of profitability
Reformation aims to demonstrate that sustainability and profitability can coexist in fashion.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
Renk's largest and most important unit, Vehicle Mobility Solution, drove the 2025 growth, with profitability up nearly 28%.
—Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
Low levels of mechanization in the region are a reason why farm productivity and profitability are low, experts say.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
But without reform, players risk killing the golden goose of baseball competitiveness and profitability in the long term.
—Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
One of the challenges facing the broadcasting market is a shift in focus, from pay TV and streaming services alike, away from acquiring new subscribers and towards profitability.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways capped a fourth straight year of profitability with record earnings in 2025, as strong passenger demand and fleet growth lifted performance and reinforced the emirate’s aviation push.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Analysts have long used that phrase to describe the shrinking profitability of the cable networks business, which used to be Hollywood’s profit engine, amid cord-cutting.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
Ordinary expectations, and the 20-year contract Del Monte Foods had signed, projected at least 10 more years of productivity and profitability.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
Renk's largest and most important unit, Vehicle Mobility Solution, drove the 2025 growth, with profitability up nearly 28%.
—Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
Low levels of mechanization in the region are a reason why farm productivity and profitability are low, experts say.
—ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
But without reform, players risk killing the golden goose of baseball competitiveness and profitability in the long term.
—Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2026
One of the challenges facing the broadcasting market is a shift in focus, from pay TV and streaming services alike, away from acquiring new subscribers and towards profitability.
—Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways capped a fourth straight year of profitability with record earnings in 2025, as strong passenger demand and fleet growth lifted performance and reinforced the emirate’s aviation push.
—Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Analysts have long used that phrase to describe the shrinking profitability of the cable networks business, which used to be Hollywood’s profit engine, amid cord-cutting.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
Ordinary expectations, and the 20-year contract Del Monte Foods had signed, projected at least 10 more years of productivity and profitability.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profitability
Noun
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The Bride not looking like a monster and retaining her desirability after reanimation is common, but only sometimes interrogated.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
7 Mar. 2026
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To Camille, Kyle is a woman who threatens her vanishing worth and desirability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But years of racial pandering had created a too-big tent, enlarged in the name of electoral expediency, that offered dark corners for despicable ideologies.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2026
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The expediency and greed of the fast-moving artificial intelligence industry are the motivators, and health and safety are no longer of paramount concern.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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How to Successfully Store Leftover Paint To extend the usefulness of leftover house paint, our experts recommend abiding by the following rules for successful paint storage.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
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Music fans who were 16 when the Pumpkins helped shape the sound of alternative rock in 1993 were 23 when the band put out Machina/The Machines of God in 2000, and rapidly aging out of usefulness to MTV’s bottom line.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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The standard for war should not be political expedience.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Bale has the more interesting role as the youth who at first chooses Hitler out of expedience, but then becomes seduced by power and status.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There’s so much to be discussed discussing the advisability of starting a war, the cost of insurance coverage or loss of cargo is likely insignificant.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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Not all members of the founding generation believed in the advisability of the pardon power, and some even attempted to eliminate it preemptively from multiple levels of government.—
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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London fashion is less about trends and more about practicality with personality.—
Alexandra Pereira,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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In practicality, those settlements were only a ticket to a new fight for compensation, this time with the Florida Legislature.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In both countries, investment outcomes depend heavily on national conditions, including the strength of capital markets, workforce, infrastructure, and the judiciousness of laws and regulations.—
SADEK WAHBA,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Profitability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profitability. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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