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beneficent

[buh-nef-uh-suhnt] / bəˈnɛf ə sənt /


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At the other end, three nuns from Chicago quietly chatter, favoring passers-by with beneficent smiles.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Isn’t giving your money away going to have the greatest beneficent impact on the most people?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

She brought to the ghostly role her own expansive sense of history — once again revealing eternity through her beneficent, dazzling, invincible artistry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

While that guidance may sound beneficent for the web at large, it’s also influenced by Google’s self-interest.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2023

By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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