How to Use at a profit in a Sentence
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The zoo is much larger today and is running at a profit.
—Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
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Then that shell company sold the pills to Perrigo in the United States at a profit.
—Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 7 July 2022
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Some politicians and members of the press may focus on non-fans who bought tickets for the purpose of reselling at a profit.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
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This arrangement gave the automakers a steady cash flow to make new cars while the dealers, who bought the cars upfront, worked to sell the finished ones at a profit.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
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Many of them are able to sell houses in New York or California at a profit and can use the cash to buy new homes with either no mortgage or a very small loan.
—Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
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Born around 1806, Robert Lumpkin was, as a young man, already purchasing enslaved men and reselling them at a profit.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
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When a mutual fund sells a position at a profit, it is obliged to distribute the resulting gain to its investors, who then have to pay tax on the gain.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
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That was followed by a Bloomberg report that Mudrick had already moved to sell its stake at a profit, viewing the company as overvalued.
—Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
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Tony took another job at an industrial bakery and, in three to five years, the couple in their early 60s plan to sell at a profit and move to a cheaper state to comfortably retire.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
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Most repeat buyers have benefited in recent years from rising home prices, enabling them to sell their homes at a profit and put the proceeds into their next purchase.
—Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
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In this strategy, an investor sells some investments at a loss to offset portfolio gains that were realized by selling stocks at a profit.
—Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 31 July 2022
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After the company announced the clinical trial data, the stock gained nearly 17% in a day, and Lewis' friends and employees all eventually sold at a profit.
—CBS News, 25 July 2023
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Rather, private equity funds aim to take control of a business for a relatively short time, restructure it and resell the company at a profit.
—Chris Morran, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
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The number of homes for sale has grown alongside the sticker prices, with buyers willing to offload properties at a profit and shoppers able to choose from the largest inventory that Houston has seen since November 2020.
—Brianna Griff, Chron, 20 July 2022
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But the researchers’ direct recycling process can run at a profit, generating slightly over $1 per kilogram.
—Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
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Team Xecuter benefited from the open source work of Switch hackers, sold devices at a profit to help others hack their Switches, and were far more explicit about the piracy aspects of their exploits than other groups.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
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After the company announced the clinical trial data, the stock gained nearly 17 percent in a day, and Lewis’ friends and employees all eventually sold at a profit.
—Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
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The market for carbon credits is booming as businesses and investors buy them to offset their emissions or potentially resell them at a profit.
—Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
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The plan was to identify properties that are quickly appreciating and have motivated sellers willing to pay Zillow’s 5% to 9% service fee; buy the homes; and flip them at a profit.
—Lance Lambert, Fortune, 2 June 2022
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Many argue outright that there is no requirement for profit to be realized—which usually means selling an asset at a profit—for a taxpayer to be hit with an income tax as the Constitution means it.
—Hank Adler and Lacy Willis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
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But shortly after the first $20 million of tokens were delivered, Alameda sent a portion of them to an account at the giant crypto exchange Binance, according to blockchain records, suggesting that the firm intended to sell them at a profit.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
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There are certainly private equity success stories in which distressed businesses are turned around and then eventually sold at a profit.
—Chris Morran, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
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In a statement last week, a Montefiore vice president, Joe Solmonese, noted that the system had lost $200 million last year, while some of the major hospital systems negotiating with the nurses’ union were running at a profit.
—Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
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Private equity firms typically acquire undervalued companies and then look for ways to cut costs and boost profits before selling them at a profit.
—Pan Pylas, ajc, 20 Aug. 2021
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This system would be based on governments managing competing, polycentric sovereign wealth funds that aim to provide public services at a profit.
—James Broughel, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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WeWork rented office space, transformed it into a fun, vibrant co-working environment complete with free coffee and beer, then hired it out to individuals and small businesses at a profit.
—Dr Byron Cole, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Private-equity firms are under pressure to generate more fees by growing their assets, and to boost performance income by selling portfolio companies at a profit.
—WSJ, 17 Oct. 2023
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Instead, Bouvier was buying and selling at a profit margin that ultimately totaled $2 billion.
—Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
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Operating at a profit becomes harder for underwriters as extreme weather events become more frequent and powerful.
—Emily Flitter, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
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