beneficence
Example Sentences
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All that brainpower would have been for naught, however, save for the beneficence of Uncle Sam.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025
For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
Schneider dispensed deadpan punch lines, Pierson spoke with hippie beneficence and Wilson talked movingly about the death of her brother, Ricky.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
There are four main ethical principles that can guide our thinking whenever faced with ethical issues in physician and patient or researcher and participant relationships, namely the principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing beneficence
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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The Federalist Papers, No. 14 by James Madison
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