1
as in profitable
fit to be offered for sale
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
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as in corporate
fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale
trying to turn their invention into a marketable product
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Recent Examples of marketable
As Black women in the spotlight, their value in society can also feel linked to their ability to remain marketable to an audience that doesn't view them in totality.
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Kia Turner, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2024
While the absence of Carlsen, who is still one of the most marketable figures in chess, was felt in Singapore, Ding’s recent struggles also cast a shadow over the finale.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
The company reported cash and cash equivalents of $121.3 million as of October 31, 2024, with marketable securities totaling $609.1 million.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
While Ding technically succeeded Carlsen, the Norwegian remains the consensus best player in the world and the sport’s most marketable figure.
—Leon Watson, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
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Kia Turner, refinery29.com, 6 Dec. 2024
While the absence of Carlsen, who is still one of the most marketable figures in chess, was felt in Singapore, Ding’s recent struggles also cast a shadow over the finale.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
The company reported cash and cash equivalents of $121.3 million as of October 31, 2024, with marketable securities totaling $609.1 million.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
While Ding technically succeeded Carlsen, the Norwegian remains the consensus best player in the world and the sport’s most marketable figure.
—Leon Watson, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
Adjective
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His ratings have been profitable 52% of the time, delivering an average return of 19.2%.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2025
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Kirby noted that all seven United hubs are profitable.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Among his demands were eliminating taxes on tips, banning taxes on overtime and cutting the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% – priorities that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025
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North Carolina has the lowest corporate tax rate in the country, at 2.5%.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
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The contenders to succeed him include Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking, Troy Rohrbaugh, co-head of the commercial and investment bank and Mary Erdoes, CEO of asset and wealth management.—
Pritam Biswas and Nupur Anand,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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The EuroLeague recently signed a new agreement with IMG that would continue to retain the company as its commercial arm.—
Mike Vorkunov,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Shares of Nvidia, the chip company whose AI technology has made it into one of the most valuable companies in the world, dropped more than 13 percent by late morning on Monday.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
27 Jan. 2025
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The world's most valuable automaker has seen its stock market valuation soar more than 60% to $1.3 trillion since President Donald Trump won November's election with the financial backing of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.—
Akash Sriram,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Massachusetts is the most expensive state in terms of basic costs for a family of four, according to a 2024 SmartAsset study.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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This season has been particularly rocky for head coach Ruben Amorim’s men, and Antony has been a bit-part player—adding to his status as among the most expensive disappointments in the division’s history.—
Henry Flynn,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Qualifying timber must be merchantable, which is the market maker’s effort to ensure that offsets aren’t produced with trees that wouldn’t otherwise be cut.—
Ryan Dezember,
WSJ,
26 May 2021
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The beetle has devoured 18 million hectares of forest in British Columbia alone, killing 60 percent of its merchantable pine.—
Robinson Meyer,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2021
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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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