How to Use take a loss in a Sentence

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• Or willing to take a loss or willing to withdraw some of their forces.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2022
• The utility expected to take a loss of at least $1.15 billion from the blaze.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2021
• But Clevelanders know perhaps better than most how to take a loss and keep right on going.
  — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• Someone has to take a loss somewhere if fossil fuels are going to be left in the ground rather than extracted and sold.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• To give you an idea of what the Rangers wasted, Folty became only the third pitcher in club history to take a loss after posting those kinds of numbers.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2021
• If a company wants to take a loss on a product in hopes of gaining market share, the free-marketer’s thinking goes, that’s its prerogative.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2021
• But sellers, not wanting to take a loss, often hold out for months or even years, before grudgingly starting to accept lower bids.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
• If a company wants to take a loss on a product in hopes of gaining market share, the free-marketeer’s thinking goes, that’s its prerogative.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• As plans are under no obligation to take a loss, their other choice is to exit the market, which from the patient’s perspective means that all the benefits disappear.
  — Casey B. Mulligan, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
• Not every lender likes to accept inventory as collateral because if the borrower cannot sell the items, then the lender will most likely struggle to do so as well and take a loss.
  — Phil Dushey, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Ars doesn’t have price estimates for the portable Valve console at this point but says that the company might take a loss on every SteamPal console to drive revenue via Steam software.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 May 2021
• If those 30 banks were liquidated today, for whatever reason, the FDIC insurance fund would take a loss to cover a portion of the customer deposits.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• So any buyer who acquired them at fair value, likely closer to $200 billion, would take a loss so big that the bank’s capital would be at lower than regulatory thresholds and could get shut down.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
• So any buyer who acquired them at fair value, likely closer to $200 billion, would take a loss so big that the bank’s capital would be at lower than regulatory thresholds and could get shut down.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024