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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
• Avoiding a ‘race to the bottom’ Both models will be sold at a profit, Tavares noted.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
• Then that shell company sold the pills to Perrigo in the United States at a profit.
  — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 7 July 2022
• Both regions can produce oil at a profit for less than $35 a barrel.
  — Bloomberg News, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Plus, people aren’t only buying art NFTs to resell them at a profit.
  — Jessica Klein, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Skye Lazaro: The plan was to develop this, turn it into a recreational hotspot, given this is probably one of the most beautiful places in the world and … hopefully sell it at a profit.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Private equity firms typically use a large amount of debt to buy companies and properties that the firms then try to sell at a profit after a few years.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The hackers’ goal is to persuade enough people to jump on the coin’s bandwagon to raise its value, at which point investors could sell their holdings at a profit — at least until the market reacts and the value drops again.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• Bidirectional, or vehicle-to-grid (V2G), charging lets EV owners charge at overnight off-peak rates then sell power back to grids at a profit during peak hours.
  — Nick Carey and Victoria Waldersee, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Others offered to sell substantial quantities of cocaine that the Taliban or their agents could then resell, either themselves or through drug dealers, at a profit in the United States.
  — Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2011
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hanoi responded by opening the state-run economy to private business, abolishing collective farms, and leasing land to individuals, who were allowed for the first time to sell their produce at a profit, at home or abroad.
  — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025