as in unsuccessful
producing no results
an unprofitable effort to find the information
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Recent Examples of unprofitable
As a barometer for capital flows and market confidence, Goldman’s beat underscores how volatility, while unsettling, isn’t always unprofitable.
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Without a clear understanding of financial metrics like cash flow, profit margins, and breakeven points, a business can quickly become unprofitable.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines have closed, laying off tens of thousands of workers.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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Catherine Baab, Quartz, 14 Apr. 2025
Without a clear understanding of financial metrics like cash flow, profit margins, and breakeven points, a business can quickly become unprofitable.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines have closed, laying off tens of thousands of workers.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprofitable
Adjective
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Each unsuccessful vote will be burned in a furnace with chemicals to dye the plume a black color.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
2 May 2025
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Hutchinson had filed numerous unsuccessful appeals, many focused on mental health problems linked to his Army service.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Regardless, returning him would be futile, said the president’s aides, as his ultimate fate would be imprisonment, in the United States or elsewhere.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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Another recommendation: Attacking Trump’s character, however abhorrent critics may find it, is futile.—
Garry Kasparov,
The Atlantic,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Once the borer has entered the stem, insecticides are useless.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
23 Apr. 2025
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Though small, the defect made the telescope mostly useless to astronomers.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Unprofitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprofitable. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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