How to Use profiteering in a Sentence

profiteering

noun
  • Worse, these lawyers take pride in their profiteering.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The author also plays down the war-profiteering of many of his barons.
    — Gregory Crouch, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • The effects of pure profiteering on this cost are immeasurable.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The global crisis has inspired plenty of non-woo profiteering and price-gouging.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
  • This kind of profiteering has no place in a fair or effective criminal legal system.
    — Rebecca Wallace, Denver Post, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There, the profiteering and panic buying of a global health crisis is on chilling display.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Trump threw down the welcome mat to anyone looking to aid his presidential profiteering.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The denial of the repair option is oftena form of profiteering.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Close off one loophole to corporate profiteering at patients’ expense, and someone will find a workaround.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 1 Apr. 2024
  • There was virtually no resistance to his programme of mass-murder and war profiteering.
    — David Pryce-Jones, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was also war profiteering charges, put people in prison, Crane also denied wrongdoing.
    — Josh Criswell, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • In the wrong hands, connections like that can lead to cronyism and profiteering — and there were times when Gray’s relationships came under fire.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In place of pranks and profiteering are now exploitation, malice, fraud, racketeering, and warfare.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 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
  • The rampant profiteering and fragmentation of care isn’t limited to drug treatment.
    — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • There will be no confusion about any of his financial holdings blurring the line between public service and personal profiteering.
    — Wendy Benjaminson, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Shoshana Zuboff has no tolerance for Big Tech profiteering off the backs of unsuspecting people.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
  • One of the solutions Butler proposes is to pay everyone involved in the war effort the same amount of money that a soldier makes, so there’s no profiteering.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But public health advocates, already skeptical of Gilead’s business model, will be watching closely for even a whiff of profiteering.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • That means capping legal fees for predatory lawyers, blocking hedge funds from buying subrogation rights, and limiting third-party profiteering.
    — Adam Kovacevich, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025

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