as in benefiting
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profiting
Advertisement Buyback frenzy — But plenty of companies are profiting like crazy off the AI boom—so why has Ellison profited so uniquely enormously?
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Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Some commission-free platforms push frequent trading but provide little real guidance, profiting when users act on impulse.
—Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors countered that the men endangered people in the Bay Area by profiting off of the fentanyl epidemic.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
What's even worse is that Bresnahan is profiting off our pain, playing the stock market while voting to screw us over in Washington.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
As part of his push to breed the animals, however, Hume was always interested in profiting from rhinos by selling their horns, which re-grow naturally after being cut off.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
As Sacramento considers the proposal, state lawmakers should also ensure that the Wildfire Fund delivers for Californians and stop third parties from profiting at their expense.
—Adam Kovacevich, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
He’s been tinkering with this messaging on and off since damn near the start of the century, when his criticism of the genre shifted from the power-holding executives (both white and Black) of the music industry who were profiting off buffoonery, a la Bamboozled, to rap music itself.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 Aug. 2025
Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Some commission-free platforms push frequent trading but provide little real guidance, profiting when users act on impulse.
—Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors countered that the men endangered people in the Bay Area by profiting off of the fentanyl epidemic.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
What's even worse is that Bresnahan is profiting off our pain, playing the stock market while voting to screw us over in Washington.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
As part of his push to breed the animals, however, Hume was always interested in profiting from rhinos by selling their horns, which re-grow naturally after being cut off.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
As Sacramento considers the proposal, state lawmakers should also ensure that the Wildfire Fund delivers for Californians and stop third parties from profiting at their expense.
—Adam Kovacevich, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
He’s been tinkering with this messaging on and off since damn near the start of the century, when his criticism of the genre shifted from the power-holding executives (both white and Black) of the music industry who were profiting off buffoonery, a la Bamboozled, to rap music itself.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiting
benefiting
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Essays on Writing, Resilience, and the Creative Life, an anthology benefitting the recovery of Asheville, NC after Hurricane Helene.—
Linda-Marie Barrett
September 10,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Both tracks were officially released on September 8, with proceeds benefiting Doctors Without Borders.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Profiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiting. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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