How to Use for-profit in a Sentence

for-profit

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• At the time, the federal shelter was the only one for migrant children run by a for-profit company, and immigrant advocates targeted it relentlessly.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 31 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
• The non-profit will still own a minority stake in the new for-profit version of the company.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 18 Oct. 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
• Raskin compared the new round of grants to the first big round of funding a for-profit startup would get from a venture capitalist like Hoffman.
  — Phoebe Liu, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Additionally, OpenAI’s for-profit model could soon shift users from free or low-cost services to pay-for-access models.
  — Gerui Wang, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Education Secretary Miguel Cardona could decide that case and others rather than hand them off to the Trump administration, which is expected to be far friendlier to for-profit colleges.
  — Fatima Hussein, Matthew Daly, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024