bankable

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Recent Examples of bankable The reigning queen of AMC Theaters has become one of the most bankable stars in the TV miniseries space, starring in one for Netflix (The Perfect Couple), one for Paramount+ (Lioness), and one for Amazon (Expats) last year, making more than $1 million per episode in each. Matt Craig, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025 Speed is its biggest advantage, because film projects can materialize or evaporate in a matter of days depending on the schedule of a bankable star. Matt Craig, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 Its bankable current chief executive, Sanjiv Lamba, has been with the industrial gas giant for more than three decades and in the top job since March 2022. Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025 The move reunited Downey, Marvel’s most bankable star, with the Russo Bros., Marvel’s most bankable directors, who likewise had departed the MCU after Endgame. Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bankable
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Adjective
  • Ferrari has also proven itself to be profitable quarter after quarter, year after year.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The announcement said Omaha has been profitable since its founding in 2020.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The lucrative fishing rights are set to run out in June 2026.
    Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This is the nation’s agro-industrial heartland, and, thanks to irrigation canals, almost every inch of the floodplain is blanketed in lucrative export crops, such as sugarcane, asparagus and blueberries.
    Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The job was not remunerative and there was no job security.
    Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Over the next few years Trump will have major influence over antitrust policy, the development and use of artificial intelligence and the growth and prevalence of cryptocurrency, to name just some of the issues of vital and remunerative interest to the tech industry.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Shearing also addressed the U.S. Federal Reserve's role amid the economic uncertainty.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Sri Lanka worried that its economic recovery would be derailed as its clothing industry faced new tariffs from its most important export market.
    Time, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An example is the programs that prepare people to leave correctional institutions for gainful employment.
    Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
  • To qualify, borrowers must be unable to engage in substantial, gainful activity due to a medical condition that is either terminal or has persisted for the last five years, or is expected to continue for another five years.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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    Raven Brunner, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Bankable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankable. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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