How to Use for-profit in a Sentence

for-profit

adjective
  • 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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