profit
noun
Often profits.
were profiting
-
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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
We met people who were turned off when they saw that Q leaders were profiting from selling merch.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2021
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently went on television here to lash out against the crooks who were profiting from disaster.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2020
Manufactures were profiting by the discoveries of Watt and Arkwright; and the consumption of raw cotton in the mills of Lancashire rose during the same period from fifty to a hundred million of pounds.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard
