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as in earnings
the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received
after we deducted the cost of sugar, lemons, and paper cups, the profit from a day of lemonade sales was about $20
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as in revenue
an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property
found that there was a profit in training dogs for rich people
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as in to benefit
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profit
Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Traditional financial metrics like revenue and profit don’t tell you much about who wins in the long run.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2026
Musk claims the shift betrayed OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission to develop safe, open-source AI technology for the public good – and that the company’s leaders, including Altman and Brockman, wrongfully profited from his charitable contributions, according to the lawsuit.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
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Noun
OpenAI in 2022 announced a $10 billion investment from Microsoft that valued the company, now with a for profit subsidiary, at $20 billion.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
Traditional financial metrics like revenue and profit don’t tell you much about who wins in the long run.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
Their rapid growth has also raised concerns over whether traders with privileged information, such as politicians, could improperly profit from world events.
—Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2026
Musk claims the shift betrayed OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission to develop safe, open-source AI technology for the public good – and that the company’s leaders, including Altman and Brockman, wrongfully profited from his charitable contributions, according to the lawsuit.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profit
Noun
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Oil revenues were at their lowest since the start of the Ukraine war.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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YouTube personalities who generate revenue from advertising depend on high numbers of views to make more money, so they are incentivized to create content that is more outrageous and likely to go viral.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Altman pitched the conversion as critical to securing the vast amount of funding OpenAI needs to fulfill its mission of creating artificial general intelligence — or AGI — that will benefit humanity.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The case centers on Musk’s claim that OpenAI, Altman and Microsoft betrayed OpenAI's original mission as a nonprofit to benefit humanity by forming a for-profit entity in March 2019, 13 months after Musk left the OpenAI board.—
Deepa Seetharaman,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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But thanks to how the financing used in purchases can amplify incomes, the ratio of values to rents varies wildly across the nation.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
30 Apr. 2026
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Manfre, who is based in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, explained that the shutdown has made already tenuous situations worse for many families, particularly those relying on a single income or those with both wage earners working for the service branch.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Their action engendered a response from Democrats and a decision by California voters that canceled out the potential gains of Republicans in Texas by conducting a partisan gerrymander of their own.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Apr. 2026
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The rights group warns that the move violates freedom of association and represents a direct assault on Tunisia’s democratic gains, vowing to challenge the decision in court.—
Ghaya ben Mbarek,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Profit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profit. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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