as in unsuccessful
producing no results
trying to reason with her is always a profitless enterprise
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Recent Examples of profitless
But rising interest rates, tighter regulation of BNPL services, and investor skepticism toward profitless growth led Klarna to slash operating costs, cut staff, and seek capital at progressively lower valuations.
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Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profitless
Adjective
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The new complaint was filed 20 years after Burrowes first claimed in an unsuccessful civil case that Combs may have put out a hit on Shakur and Knight.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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All have been unsuccessful due to his status as a suspect in multiple violent crimes.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And, perhaps most dangerous still, these dreams of modernity shine an unwanted light on the futile hardship of the family’s status quo.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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This alternating strategy is futile.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This method is a significant departure from traditional chemical recycling techniques like pyrolysis, which operate at lower temperatures (450–600°C) and produce over a hundred different by-products, many of which are useless.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Economists usually look at new jobs, but immigration is now very low, making that figure useless as a measure of how the economy is doing.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Poonen said the combination, which brought together his fast-growing but unprofitable firm with the larger, highly profitable Veritas, was a risky but calculated deal.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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If the ridership falls off even marginally, the result could render the service unprofitable.—
Michael Boyd,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Profitless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profitless. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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