How to Use at a profit in a Sentence

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  • The zoo is much larger today and is running at a profit.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • Avoiding a ‘race to the bottom’ Both models will be sold at a profit, Tavares noted.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Then that shell company sold the pills to Perrigo in the United States at a profit.
    — Jesse Drucker, New York Times, 7 July 2022
  • Both regions can produce oil at a profit for less than $35 a barrel.
    — Bloomberg News, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Some politicians and members of the press may focus on non-fans who bought tickets for the purpose of reselling at a profit.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This arrangement gave the automakers a steady cash flow to make new cars while the dealers, who bought the cars upfront, worked to sell the finished ones at a profit.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
  • Plus, people aren’t only buying art NFTs to resell them at a profit.
    — Jessica Klein, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2024
  • Many of them are able to sell houses in New York or California at a profit and can use the cash to buy new homes with either no mortgage or a very small loan.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Born around 1806, Robert Lumpkin was, as a young man, already purchasing enslaved men and reselling them at a profit.
    — Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2022
  • When a mutual fund sells a position at a profit, it is obliged to distribute the resulting gain to its investors, who then have to pay tax on the gain.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • That was followed by a Bloomberg report that Mudrick had already moved to sell its stake at a profit, viewing the company as overvalued.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • Neighborhood Venture plans to bring in its own operations team, lease up the currently vacant units and then sell the complex in three years at a profit.
    — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Skye Lazaro: The plan was to develop this, turn it into a recreational hotspot, given this is probably one of the most beautiful places in the world and … hopefully sell it at a profit.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Private equity firms typically use a large amount of debt to buy companies and properties that the firms then try to sell at a profit after a few years.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Tony took another job at an industrial bakery and, in three to five years, the couple in their early 60s plan to sell at a profit and move to a cheaper state to comfortably retire.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The hackers’ goal is to persuade enough people to jump on the coin’s bandwagon to raise its value, at which point investors could sell their holdings at a profit — at least until the market reacts and the value drops again.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • Bidirectional, or vehicle-to-grid (V2G), charging lets EV owners charge at overnight off-peak rates then sell power back to grids at a profit during peak hours.
    — Nick Carey and Victoria Waldersee, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Most repeat buyers have benefited in recent years from rising home prices, enabling them to sell their homes at a profit and put the proceeds into their next purchase.
    — Nicole Friedman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In this strategy, an investor sells some investments at a loss to offset portfolio gains that were realized by selling stocks at a profit.
    — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 31 July 2022
  • Others offered to sell substantial quantities of cocaine that the Taliban or their agents could then resell, either themselves or through drug dealers, at a profit in the United States.
    — Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2011
  • Even then, however, the government was able to do so at a profit, punctuating the success of the mineral supply chain initiatives.
    — Duncan Money / Made By History, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
  • After the company announced the clinical trial data, the stock gained nearly 17% in a day, and Lewis' friends and employees all eventually sold at a profit.
    — CBS News, 25 July 2023
  • Rather, private equity funds aim to take control of a business for a relatively short time, restructure it and resell the company at a profit.
    — Chris Morran, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The number of homes for sale has grown alongside the sticker prices, with buyers willing to offload properties at a profit and shoppers able to choose from the largest inventory that Houston has seen since November 2020.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 20 July 2022
  • But the researchers’ direct recycling process can run at a profit, generating slightly over $1 per kilogram.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Team Xecuter benefited from the open source work of Switch hackers, sold devices at a profit to help others hack their Switches, and were far more explicit about the piracy aspects of their exploits than other groups.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • After the company announced the clinical trial data, the stock gained nearly 17 percent in a day, and Lewis’ friends and employees all eventually sold at a profit.
    — Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • The market for carbon credits is booming as businesses and investors buy them to offset their emissions or potentially resell them at a profit.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The plan was to identify properties that are quickly appreciating and have motivated sellers willing to pay Zillow’s 5% to 9% service fee; buy the homes; and flip them at a profit.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 2 June 2022
  • The county could potentially consolidate some of its many offices there and then sell it later at a profit when the office real estate market recovered.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024

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