How to Use profiteer in a Sentence

profiteer

noun
  • As long as there have been wars, there have been war profiteers.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • As long as there have been wars, there have been war profiteers.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Someone who has spent decades as a profiteer of woo might fare well on the campaign trail.
    — Timothy Caulfield, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
  • What is more, in many cases the war profiteers also have roles within the state.
    — Tim Eaton, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Over the next 40 years, Meehan proved to be a skilled shapeshifter and profiteer.
    — Longreads, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Oil still drives a boom-and-bust economy, making the state a kind of war profiteer and a staging ground for climate change.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • And then there are the profiteers who cash in as the climate crisis takes hold across the United States.
    — Paola Rosa-Aquino, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • That’s how its adversaries paint the company in court — as a ruthless profiteer from its patents, some of which date back more than a decade.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Don’t loan your name and your celebrity to a nation of profiteers and panderers and modern slave-drivers.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Expect the same slick ads that neglect to mention dangers in order to get our youth hooked as a key long-term strategy for profiteers.
    — Bruce Grant, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • Neighbors objected and called him a profiteer, zoning laws stood in his way, and pro-housing politicians balked at stepping in.
    — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But Congo has long been part of a frustrating region for would-be peacemakers and profiteers.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • If there is, in fact, an information war raging on Twitter, Musk is a profiteer.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The crowd was a mix of techie true believers, digital artists in search of a business model, and corporate profiteers.
    — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • The money changers are still the people carrying around a tin cash box, not profiteers thumbing numbers on to a spreadsheet on their tablets.
    — Ray Glier, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
  • Criminals are looting the aid and profiteers are selling it at exorbitant prices.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Genocide profiteers like Raytheon supply weapons to the IDF, paid for by our taxes.
    — Omar Gallaga, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Goggins eschews theatrics as the film’s chief villain, playing Mathias as a sullen profiteer.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Health care should be run by caregivers dedicated to the mission of healing people and serving the public, not by profiteers and their agents.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • It was issued in bean form because war profiteers were fond of mixing dirt into ground coffee, so Billy Yank got to roast and grind his own.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Middlemen and profiteers squirmed in between links in the global supply chain, selling fictional caches of equipment.
    — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 22 May 2020
  • Others see it as a crude dream world created by profiteers who exploited sacred iconography in order to sell the notion of paradise.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Hand sanitizer has become one of the scarcest household products during the pandemic — worse than toilet paper — thanks in part to profiteers.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2020
  • This particular flavor of profiteers seek a higher yield, faster, with no regard for the long-term sustainability of the business.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The Crooked Man was an 18th-century war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
  • There’s Schindler himself, a Nazi and a war profiteer—and the reason hundreds of Jews survived the Holocaust.
    — Emily Tamkin, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Several stores were limiting key items to ensure more customers got a fair crack at buying them and to prevent profiteers from hoarding and reselling them on the internet.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The law was aimed at Airbnb profiteers and leveled the taxation field with hotels, where tourists were already paying occupancy taxes.
    — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
  • But community residents are enraged, calling the Smiths liars, profiteers, and reckless for bringing the shelter to their town.
    — Christine Coppa, Good Housekeeping, 29 Jan. 2016
  • On the fringes of his stories are petty criminals, profiteers, willing collaborators, the luckless, and the stateless.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2019

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