How to Use profiteering in a Sentence

profiteering

noun

• The author also plays down the war-profiteering of many of his barons.
  — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
• Such profiteering is made possible by the M23, which keeps Congo’s state too weak to stop the theft.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
• Adding to the concerns, some of the kits have been sold at a steep markup, bringing accusations of profiteering.
  — Jane Bradley, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• And the last line of defense, a financial penalty that takes the profit out of this profiteering, doesn't seem even to exist anymore.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• More than a decade ago, at the height of the dot-com boom, the market for initial public offerings was exposed as a den of conflicts and profiteering that was due for change.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• The point is, from the outset, the Founders tried to cut off any avenue for private profiteering and influence peddling in their new government.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2016
• And while that involves picking a few early winners, that still seems preferable to ceding .new to a bunch of profiteering squatters.
  — Wired, 29 Oct. 2019
• The denial of the repair option is oftena form of profiteering.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2020
• Sanders says if people want a health care system that won’t bankrupt them, the answer is to get rid of profiteering by drug companies and insurers.
  — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2019
• There, the profiteering and panic buying of a global health crisis is on chilling display.
  — Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• The most frustrating thing about America’s failure to rein in drug prices is that a weapon against Big Pharma’s profiteering has been hiding in plain sight — and never used — for more than 40 years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• The global crisis has inspired plenty of non-woo profiteering and price-gouging.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• The effects of pure profiteering on this cost are immeasurable.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2019
• This would follow a growing trend in dealing with the hottest of hot tickets in an industry tainted by years of profiteering by ticket brokers.
  — Théoden Janes, charlotteobserver, 11 Jan. 2018
• Then there's all the profiteering that occurs in the shadows, seeking to exploit the insane complexity of the U.S. healthcare system and in so doing drive costs even higher.
  — David Lazarus, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The administration views some of those price spikes as the result of corporate profiteering, as companies look to squeeze their customers in a bid to pump their bottom lines.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Shoshana Zuboff has no tolerance for Big Tech profiteering off the backs of unsuspecting people.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
• Trump threw down the welcome mat to anyone looking to aid his presidential profiteering.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• As clever and relevant as these decisions may be, some critics argue that profiteering has no place in the resistance.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 6 Sep. 2017
• With the losses piling up for families in Gaza facing missile strikes, famine, and profiteering, more Gazans say the idea of trusting Hamas as rulers governing the strip again is unthinkable.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• These drugs were once seen as a tonic: a chemical rejoinder to the culture of corporate profiteering.
  — Wired, 28 July 2022
• Among them were the tie-ups of import shipments at U.S. ports, a product of the reopening of the U.S. economy as the pandemic ebbed; and excessive corporate profiteering.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• And with rising labor costs and the possibility of profiteering, food prices are unlikely to come down anytime soon.
  — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Moreover, it's noted that most of those one-percenters earned their money from war profiteering -- selling weapons to the First Order and Rebels alike -- while subjugating and exploiting those around them.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 18 Dec. 2017
• Close off one loophole to corporate profiteering at patients’ expense, and someone will find a workaround.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
• In place of pranks and profiteering are now exploitation, malice, fraud, racketeering, and warfare.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• Much of the back-and-forth over what to do about inflation has consisted of quibbling among economists and policymakers about just how much blame to place on corporate profiteering.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The offerings highlight how the fringe markets of social media have seized on the coronavirus to fly under the radar of broader efforts to stop misinformation and profiteering.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• But behind the outrage over pharmaceutical profiteering and the technical rule-making lies a pressing question: What, exactly, is the price of a drug?
  — Robin Feldman, STAT, 23 Nov. 2020
• The stark divide owed in part to a difference of opinion about the role of corporate profiteering in the pandemic-era bout of inflation, as well as a clash over the effectiveness of government intervention in addressing it.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024