How to Use unprofitable in a Sentence

unprofitable

adjective
Definition of unprofitablenext
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  • MissFresh has been unprofitable for the past three years.
    — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • And some of those deals have inevitably been unprofitable.
    — Vulture, 2 May 2023
  • For the fifth year in a row, the first quarter has been an unprofitable one for the airline industry.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 17 June 2024
  • But the farms are expensive to set up and take a long time to expand, so many are unprofitable.
    — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • That deal marked the start of a turnaround, as unprofitable and non-core businesses were shed.
    — Kurt Schussler, Bloomberg.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The company was also unprofitable for eight of the last 10 years.
    — Ryan Mac, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Among the reasons is that hedging costs have made deals unprofitable, traders say.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The last time unprofitable tech companies went public at this rate was in 2000, the year the dot-com bubble burst.
    — Rani Molla, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • The truth, though, is that many penny stocks are tied to tiny, shaky — or shady — companies that are unprofitable.
    — Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Last year, the five most unprofitable companies cost the state more than $50 million.
    — Daria Mitiuk, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • Last year, 81 percent of the ventures that went public had been unprofitable the year before.
    — James P. Sutton, National Review, 12 July 2019
  • Now, the unprofitable startup will have to push any potential IPO plans further down the road.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Noma was last unprofitable in 2017, when Redzepi closed the restaurant for about a year to build out its new location.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 June 2022
  • That is quite the feat for a company that, as of a year ago, was expected to be unprofitable until at least 2024.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 6 May 2021
  • This makes as-of-yet unprofitable firms deemed 'growth stocks' less attractive.
    — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • For many large, unprofitable start-ups, this will be the first true test of whether their businesses can withstand a downturn.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • That event marked a turn in sentiment around high-profile-but-unprofitable tech start-ups, many of which had burned cash for years in the pursuit of growth.
    — Katie Benner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • But just in case, Brex, which is unprofitable, has stockpiled money.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The filing would help the retailer close unprofitable stores.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Then there was the awkward and unprofitable Cornish hen tabaka, for which Dolinsky flattened a small bird with a brick in a cast-iron pan.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2021
  • About half of these subsidies were then used to fish in grounds that would otherwise be unprofitable.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Even if the airlines are unprofitable, the argument goes, the economy will gain.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Then again, if the nature of the game is to keep users glued to their apps for as long as possible, this option would be considered unprofitable.
    — Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Houston had the largest share of unprofitable businesses last year, a report found.
    — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2019
  • Disney+ remains unprofitable, although the company has vowed to change that by next year.
    — Brooks Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Many of the locations to be shuttered are too old to be remodeled or are in unprofitable areas, Dunn said.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Why does Prince own companies, some of them clearly unprofitable, all over the country?
    — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Thousands have already been cut in the effort to trim unprofitable units, according to the Journal.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Jan. 2023
  • While Meta changed its name in 2022 to reflect its strategic shift toward the metaverse, that part of the company continues to be an unprofitable project designed to help future-proof the overall business.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The company — founded in 2006 — is now considered unprofitable, The Wall Street Journal reported.
    — Marley Malenfant, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024

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