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Recent Examples of unprofitable The zombie companies made Japan’s economy less efficient and slower-growing, and left generations of Japanese working at unprofitable businesses. Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025 The reason cited at the time by then REI CEO Eric Artz was that the operation was unprofitable. Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025 OpenAI, meanwhile, is unprofitable. Billy Perrigo, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 The business is currently unprofitable, and Forbes estimates gross margins at 35%. Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unprofitable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprofitable
Adjective
  • The Mellon family foundation did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment, and attempts by the Times to reach Mellon were unsuccessful.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The two-point conversion attempt was unsuccessful.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Understanding each other is futile.
    Jake Coyle, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The court fights all proved futile, however.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The rules of grammar were useless now, and never truly rules.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Unprofitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprofitable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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