magnanimous
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“You all right if I — “ he began before Trump cut him off with a magnanimous, “Sure. Please.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson—former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project—to step forward.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
Is there a world in which the BBC asks the Prime Minister to intervene and Starmer calls Trump and asks President Trump to be magnanimous?
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025
When wealth becomes a substitute for participation, giving is reduced to performance art—proof of virtue, a way to appear magnanimous while still demanding ownership.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life.'
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Great Gatsby
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