as in benefiting
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profiting
The boycott is set to continue until all sponsors enabling and profiting from the occupation of Palestine are dropped.
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Literary Hub
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
As an alliance grew between senators and financial powers, public figures began profiting from real-estate speculation, slave trading, and overseas plunder—while masking their involvement.
—Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
There’s no way of profiting from them anymore unless people contact me to take them off the market.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Buyback frenzy — But plenty of companies are profiting like crazy off the AI boom—so why has Ellison profited so uniquely enormously?
—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
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
Literary Hub
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
As an alliance grew between senators and financial powers, public figures began profiting from real-estate speculation, slave trading, and overseas plunder—while masking their involvement.
—Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
There’s no way of profiting from them anymore unless people contact me to take them off the market.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Buyback frenzy — But plenty of companies are profiting like crazy off the AI boom—so why has Ellison profited so uniquely enormously?
—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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profiting
benefiting
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In other words, the country’s existing industrial and financial ecosystem often helps nascent industries, benefiting both.—
Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ray Murray, whose long relationship with Outkast began with their 1994 debut studio album as part of producing group Organized Noize, recalls the two rappers as preternaturally talented but benefiting from structure.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Profiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profiting. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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