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as in profitable
fit to be offered for sale
realized that the birdhouses he enjoyed making were marketable and began selling them at craft fairs
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as in corporate
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
But the blanket Trump pay-to-quit offer–reportedly driven by Elon Musk–ignores a big risk: That the top performers, with the most marketable skills, will take the money and run.
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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
The company ended the year with $26.3 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025
This should be based on what makes your skills more marketable based on industry trends.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
In the extreme, GoFundMe can perversely encourage users to package their despair into marketable narratives.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2025
The company ended the year with $26.3 billion in cash and marketable securities.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2025
This should be based on what makes your skills more marketable based on industry trends.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
In the extreme, GoFundMe can perversely encourage users to package their despair into marketable narratives.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marketable
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Getting Ahead Of The Waste Cycle One way to combat humanity’s continuing need for plastic is to develop and adopt technologies that make recycling profitable.—
Michael Dennis,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Litigation is also heard by a judge who may be extremely knowledgeable about the law but less conversant regarding the customs and practices of what makes a sports league unique and profitable.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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That’s very much an extrapolation of current-day dynamics in our system of government and corporate control through debt.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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During the 2024 presidential election campaign, Trump vowed to introduce a series of tax cuts including reducing the corporate tax rate to 15 percent for firms that produce their products in the U.S. and ending the taxation of tips and overtime wages for waiting staff and other service workers.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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The series renders the potentially odd and inward aspects of fantasy salable—paranormals are just like contemporary humans, with familiar psychologies, politics, and value systems.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Issues that can land associations on the list include inadequate reserves or insurance, too many delinquencies, too much commercial space, structural or construction issues, outstanding special assessments and too many rentals.—
Ron Hurtibise,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2025
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With the hardest part behind them, Firefly is now focused on completing surface operations and continuing to demonstrate the capabilities of commercial lunar missions.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Victims told police the men threatened them with a handgun and sometimes used force to steal cash and other valuable property.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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Bitcoin is the oldest, the most valuable and most popular cryptocurrency on the market.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Castillo would be expensive, in terms of money and the trade package, but his presence on the mound would be well worth it.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
9 Mar. 2025
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Renovations to make a home wheelchair-accessible or safe for someone with a visual impairment can be expensive.—
Andrew Lingelbach,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Mar. 2025
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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
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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 13 Mar. 2025.
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