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fit or likely to be sold especially on a large scale trying to turn their invention into a marketable product

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Recent Examples of marketable Today's high-performance EVs are few and far between, with most automakers concentrating on delivering the most marketable model. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 Net cash spent on marketable securities was $806,000, compared to $556,000 last year. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2025 Cash and cash equivalents, along with marketable securities, totaled $80,115,000 as of December 31, 2024. Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2025 But starting around 1910, the raw material of Pyrenean meadows, the sheep’s milk itself, became nationally marketable. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marketable
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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
  • If it can be proven through existing models that yes, this type of content can be profitable, and here are examples to prove it, then funders will be less hesitant.
    Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Those declines reflect investor concerns about the impact of multilateral tariffs on corporate profits and on the broader economy, with some analysts raising the odds of a recession.
    Anne Marie Drummond Lee, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The strategy is straightforward: invest at least $2,000 in a company's stock to gain shareholder rights, then submit resolutions pushing for corporate responsibility.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether the converter intends to create a rental or a condo building, if the overall structure is much wider than 60 or 65 feet, the converter may need to go to extreme measures to give the residential units enough light and air while maintaining a high ratio of salable or rentable space.
    Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In the past 10 years there’s been a lot of innovation in packaging integration, which is the final manufacturing process that transforms semiconductor devices into salable products.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • Similarly, apartments, commercial and industrial building construction are all made more costly.
    John Faso, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Isaacson’s team at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases is studying more than 125 individual markers from a variety of commercial and research-based tests, some of which may soon be available in a clinical setting.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These shoes are so highly coveted and valuable that Sotheby’s hosted an auction to sell them.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Unbeknownst to them, one friend intends to rob the place, seeking a valuable antique.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Your daily cup of joe could get even more expensive under new U.S. tariffs on dozens of countries around the world.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Samsung giving away one of its most expensive wearables, with its flagship smartphone, also marks the beginning of more serious discounts in the coming months.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Qualifying timber must be merchantable, which is the market maker’s effort to ensure that offsets aren’t produced with trees that wouldn’t otherwise be cut.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • The beetle has devoured 18 million hectares of forest in British Columbia alone, killing 60 percent of its merchantable pine.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021

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“Marketable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marketable. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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