Example Sentences

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She was struck by how much Western facilitators were profiting compared with Indigenous medicine practitioners.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 22, 2023

We met people who were turned off when they saw that Q leaders were profiting from selling merch.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2021

“What prompted ‘The Circle’ was seeing it turn from a bunch of sloppy, utopian digital goofballs to these evermore powerful monopolies that were profiting from our private lives.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 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

I was advised not to pay them the sum promised, as they were profiting by my ignorance, and it might make me trouble afterwards.

From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball