as in lucrative
yielding a profit made a highly remunerative investment that will end up paying my college tuition

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Recent Examples of remunerative The job was not remunerative and there was no job security. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025 Over the next few years Trump will have major influence over antitrust policy, the development and use of artificial intelligence and the growth and prevalence of cryptocurrency, to name just some of the issues of vital and remunerative interest to the tech industry. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025 At the same time, a growing chorus of policy wonks and public officials, including yours truly, have argued that Americans shouldn’t have to buy a college degree in order to find remunerative employment. Frederick Hess, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 Stable, remunerative employment reinforces good habits and discourages bad ones. Robert E. Lighthizer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for remunerative
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  • Sweet Martha’s, which operates three stands at the fair, is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This designation gives them access to federal benefits intended for rural communities, such as lower thresholds for qualifying for the lucrative 340B Drug Pricing Program and expanded graduate medical education slots.
    Ge Bai, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Kurt Hutson, owner of Rise Academy located north of Dallas in Allen, said 3- and 4-year-old students are the most profitable in terms of the revenue source from their tuition.
    Lina Ruiz September 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Adopt zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multiparty computation (MPC) to validate identity attributes without exposing the raw data, making synthetic identity theft less profitable.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Remunerative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remunerative. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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