profit
noun
Often profits.
were profiting
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past progressiveof profit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was a backlash against millionaires who were profiting off the backs of ordinary people.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
The Supported Housing Act was passed in June last year to create standards in the sector, after a select committee found the lack of regulation meant some landlords were "profiting" from "unacceptably poor housing".
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2024
She was struck by how much Western facilitators were profiting compared with Indigenous medicine practitioners.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 22, 2023
“I assumed it was something they put out into the world. I assumed they were profiting from it,” Rogen says of the video that leaked in his pubescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
The landed classes were profiting by a rise of price raised, according to a familiar law, in greater proportion than the deficiency of the harvest.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
