How to Use profiteering in a Sentence

profiteering

noun

• The author also plays down the war-profiteering of many of his barons.
  — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
• Adding to the concerns, some of the kits have been sold at a steep markup, bringing accusations of profiteering.
  — Jane Bradley, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• And the last line of defense, a financial penalty that takes the profit out of this profiteering, doesn't seem even to exist anymore.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• More than a decade ago, at the height of the dot-com boom, the market for initial public offerings was exposed as a den of conflicts and profiteering that was due for change.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The point is, from the outset, the Founders tried to cut off any avenue for private profiteering and influence peddling in their new government.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2016
• And while that involves picking a few early winners, that still seems preferable to ceding .new to a bunch of profiteering squatters.
  — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
• The denial of the repair option is oftena form of profiteering.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2020
• Sanders says if people want a health care system that won’t bankrupt them, the answer is to get rid of profiteering by drug companies and insurers.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• There, the profiteering and panic buying of a global health crisis is on chilling display.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• The most frustrating thing about America’s failure to rein in drug prices is that a weapon against Big Pharma’s profiteering has been hiding in plain sight — and never used — for more than 40 years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The global crisis has inspired plenty of non-woo profiteering and price-gouging.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• The effects of pure profiteering on this cost are immeasurable.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2019
• This would follow a growing trend in dealing with the hottest of hot tickets in an industry tainted by years of profiteering by ticket brokers.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 11 Jan. 2018
• Then there's all the profiteering that occurs in the shadows, seeking to exploit the insane complexity of the U.S. healthcare system and in so doing drive costs even higher.
  — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The administration views some of those price spikes as the result of corporate profiteering, as companies look to squeeze their customers in a bid to pump their bottom lines.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Shoshana Zuboff has no tolerance for Big Tech profiteering off the backs of unsuspecting people.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
• Trump threw down the welcome mat to anyone looking to aid his presidential profiteering.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• As clever and relevant as these decisions may be, some critics argue that profiteering has no place in the resistance.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
• These drugs were once seen as a tonic: a chemical rejoinder to the culture of corporate profiteering.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• Among them were the tie-ups of import shipments at U.S. ports, a product of the reopening of the U.S. economy as the pandemic ebbed; and excessive corporate profiteering.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• And with rising labor costs and the possibility of profiteering, food prices are unlikely to come down anytime soon.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Moreover, it's noted that most of those one-percenters earned their money from war profiteering -- selling weapons to the First Order and Rebels alike -- while subjugating and exploiting those around them.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 Dec. 2017
• In place of pranks and profiteering are now exploitation, malice, fraud, racketeering, and warfare.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• Much of the back-and-forth over what to do about inflation has consisted of quibbling among economists and policymakers about just how much blame to place on corporate profiteering.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The offerings highlight how the fringe markets of social media have seized on the coronavirus to fly under the radar of broader efforts to stop misinformation and profiteering.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• But behind the outrage over pharmaceutical profiteering and the technical rule-making lies a pressing question: What, exactly, is the price of a drug?
  — Robin Feldman, STAT, 23 Nov. 2020
• The intended impact of some of those ideas — involving militarism, class, profiteering and Big Pharma — grows muddled, though, as the film shifts into a second half driven by action set pieces.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2022
• There was virtually no resistance to his programme of mass-murder and war profiteering.
  — David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• The country has an anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission of Integrity, but that too is said to have succumbed to factional profiteering.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• There was also war profiteering charges, put people in prison, Crane also denied wrongdoing.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024