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goodwill

[good-wil] / ˈgʊdˈwɪl /
NOUN
generosity
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Turner created the Goodwill Games in the 1980s as part of an effort to ease international tensions during the Cold War, amid Olympic boycotts led by the United States and Soviet Union.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Buy Nothing items may feel too valuable for the trash or too personal for Goodwill.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

And this influencer, with a sharp blond bob and glass skin, is trying on jackets at a small-town Goodwill, where the merchandise has not yet been eviscerated by other consumers completing their own “hauls.”

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

Orlando Fraser KC, chair of the Charity Commission, was also a recipient of a CBE, while Elena Goulding, UN Goodwill Ambassador, and Gavin Webb, an officer in the National Crime Agency, were both appointed OBE.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

He rummaged around the messy pile on the floor and found an oversized Rage Against the Machine shirt he’d bought at Goodwill a few months ago.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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