profit
noun
Often profits.
are profiting
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present progressiveof profit.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Energy majors are profiting also from their trades as oil and gas futures swing between big gains and losses on the war's latest headlines.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“But again, I think there are people who are profiting off this, and that is what I find very despicable.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
In the markets divisions, trading revenues have continued to hit new records in the postpandemic period, and banks are profiting from lending to supercharge clients’ trading even more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
That there are very powerful interests that are profiting from it.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2024
These seafaring, invading, self-asserting men were the English of old time, and were our fathers who did rough work by which we are profiting.
From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot
