How to Use for-profit in a Sentence
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Investors in this round have the right to ask for their money back if the firm doesn't complete further governance changes in the for-profit direction within two years.
— Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 3 Oct. 2024 -
The show isn’t making new points about the hypocrisy of for-profit worship.
— Alison Herman, Variety, 16 June 2023 -
But there are some very good for-profit homes and some lousy nonprofits.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024 -
The company opened a for-profit arm in 2019 to raise funds for its A.I. endeavors.
— Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023 -
But Edwards researched that, and his charter school is a for-profit school.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023 -
Everyone quashed the latter, not wanting a for-profit fox in the non-profit hen house.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024 -
The bottom line: When taxpayers invest in a for-profit venture, they should be cut in on the profits.
— Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024 -
So far the for-profit model just keeps winning with this one exception.
— Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024 -
The city needs the private sector, for-profit and not-for-profit, and the city needs regular Angelenos.
— Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2023 -
Our for-profit end of that, of our endeavors, was acquired by a company called Safe Pro Group in 2023.
— IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024 -
OpenAI, which became for-profit in 2019, hand-picked the organizations over the past weeks and months.
— David Ingram, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2023 -
The for-profit magazine's annual rankings have been the target of backlash over the last few years.
— Sheridan Hendrix, The Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2024 -
Meanwhile, a for-profit entity will also seek to expand the Golden Globes as a brand.
— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2024 -
The group also has a for-profit arm, Swarm Inc., which pays him even more to make ads for the collective’s corporate supporters.
— Billy Witz, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023 -
That may be because OpenAI is now a for-profit tech firm, not a nonprofit researcher.
— Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 16 Mar. 2023 -
So Alia, is the debt evenly split between non-profit and for-profit institutions, and if not, why?
— Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023 -
But the for-profit Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, which reopened as housing for the homeless at the end of 2021, has struggled to do the same.
— Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Many of the classrooms still have the desks and chairs left behind by its former occupant, the private, for-profit Whittle School & Studios that closed in 2022.
— Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023 -
But as one was a nonprofit fundraiser and the other a for-profit venture, the accounting was deemed too complex.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023 -
Musk acknowledges in the messages that the only path forward was for OpenAI to raise vast sums as a for-profit enterprise.
— Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Why should the public trust a for-profit company like OpenAI or for-profit broader industry to put the good of the world ahead of profit?
— Time, 21 June 2023 -
The feat by the country of 1.4 billion people comes at a time when private, for-profit companies have stolen the spotlight in space exploration.
— Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023 -
These for-profit companies should not be allowed to increase rates on the backs of hard-working residents.
— Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024 -
After all, the company transitioned from nonprofit to for-profit in 2019, not long after Musk left, and this also gets to the root of his beef with Page.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 May 2023 -
These cards come from for-profit companies such as GoodRx and SingleCare that offer modest reductions off the cost of the drugs.
— Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023 -
Opening a theater, whether for-profit or not, presents a major financial risk.
— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 July 2024 -
Dandelion is structured as a for-profit and has raised seed funding from a trio of venture capital firms.
— Casey Ross, STAT, 21 June 2023 -
And a for-profit hospital chain is accused of pushing hospice care on families to free up beds.
— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 June 2023 -
Behold a company that, depending on your time-space point of view, is for-profit and nonprofit.
— Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023 -
These were mostly certificate programs at for-profit institutions — many of them offering cosmetology programs.
— Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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