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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as unprofitable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the profitability of different options or situations, indicating that something is not yielding profit.
Example: "Investing in that venture turned out to be as unprofitable as we had feared."
Alternatives: "equally unprofitable" or "just as unprofitable".
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Ditto Victorian, which Mr. LeClair said is as unprofitable as it is ubiquitous.
For Napster, it means a chance finally to make money on a service that has so far been as unprofitable as it has been enormously popular.
All that goes to show that the two firms are roughly as unprofitable as one another, on a percentage basis.
Both grew popular as unprofitable start-ups, but eventually began to generate meaningful revenue.
Toyota exports the rest at a high cost, a system long criticized by analysts as unprofitable.
Ford started selling it in 1996, but it gave it up as unprofitable in 2004.
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Some of the company's high profit recently went toward buying a stake in Russia's second-largest car producer, an as-yet unprofitable but promising investment in a growing industry.
The mines were deemed to be unprofitable, as well as dangerous.
These practices have often been criticized as inherently unprofitable or injurious to Amazon's other constituents.
Months ago, Sony and its rivals Panasonic and Sharp were all but written off by analysts as hopelessly unprofitable and lacking innovation.
In her Midem panel, Teli described Spotify as "massively unprofitable" and said she judges the health of companies by whether they can be independent and profitable.
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