beneficent
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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
I want to have the greatest beneficent impact on the largest number of people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
She is not beneficent or seductive; she’s ruthless and mutilated.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
When Butler’s Prospero refers to Miranda as “a third of mine own life” while bestowing her on Ferdinand, he seems more resentful than beneficent.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2023
She forgot the names of the servants and even of her own children, yet she always managed to be present, like a cheerful, beneficent spirit, at whose slightest footfall clocks began to wind themselves.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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