beneficiary
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The company had been the beneficiary of a federal “loan guarantee” program that aimed to spur investment in experimental technologies that were unproven but could yield huge financial or climate dividends.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Make sure to update your beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, healthcare directives and will.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The expansion enabled A Step to Freedom, run by chief executive Kenya Croom, to help far more people, but it also had another, less visible beneficiary: Croom herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Meanwhile, polling since the third candidate, Mallory McMorrow, dropped out suggests that Stevens has been the larger beneficiary of her support.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
It would have been wholly within character for Holmes to have first persuaded the “brother-in-law” to take out a life insurance policy with Holmes as beneficiary.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Westinghouse Electric and its AP1000 reactor would be among the biggest beneficiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
First, in the name of protecting future beneficiaries, Australia’s super funds are subject to heavy regulation with high levels of administrative, auditing and governance compliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Goldman excluded “the most clearly AI-related stocks, including both the beneficiaries of infrastructure spending and companies perceived to be at risk from disruption.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
"The trust is supposed to send the money to the beneficiaries, in this case me and my brother, which they never did, they kept it," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead of understanding that they were the beneficiaries of history, they began to believe they were the creators of it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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