benefit
Usage
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Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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Still, the Dodgers could benefit from at least another third-string option at the physically and mentally demanding position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
All of these examples ultimately result in economic benefit and opportunity.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
At Cursor, a startup that stands to benefit from this corporate epiphany because its software works with all models, Mike Saeks puts it simply:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Although risk generally declined as coffee intake increased, the researchers found signs of benefit even among people who drank only one or two cups per day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
He assumes that free cocoa is a benefit of being a member of the circus.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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We look into the buzz and examine the science, risks and benefits behind the controversial gut-health trend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
His research often highlights the benefits of the systems.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
So whatever benefits companies might see in changing practices could be short-lived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"Young people who take up part-time work on minimum wage earn £100 less than those claiming sickness benefits", is the Times' top story.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system’s maintenance and administration.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Its broader private-equity business also benefited from the firm’s yearslong AI-related investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
For the TV category, roughly 28% of the 1,607 shoot days last quarter were for projects that benefited from the tax incentive, particularly for dramas and comedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
While China’s memory industry has certainly benefited from government backing, CXMT’s progress cannot be reduced to subsidies alone, according to Zhao of Hello China Tech.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Although Russia's oil and gas sector, which accounts for about a quarter of state revenues, has benefited from a recent rise in oil prices following the Iran war, the broader economy is slowing.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The adventure of the night does not seem to have harmed her; on the contrary, it has benefited her, for she looks better this morning than she has done for weeks.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Swedish truck maker surprised with order intake in both trucks and construction equipment, with the divisions benefiting from cyclical recovery, Housden says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Micron has been benefiting from price hikes that have boosted earnings per share exponentially.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
The official sponsors of the World Cup pay eye-watering sums to associate brands with the competition, but no doubt end up benefiting financially, with the likes of Adidas and Coca-Cola plastered everywhere.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
They were benefiting from people who were running for their lives.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The backdrop has Conger’s team underweight on the Magnificent Seven and semiconductors, which have benefitted from the artificial-intelligence spending blitz.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
There isn't a cop in the city who hasn't been charmed by them, nor a local business that hasn't benefitted hugely from the Tartan Army dollar.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
A recent wave of worries about AI spending that has weighed on the chip sector is also now spreading to other parts of the market that benefitted from billions in data center buildout spending.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Washington did not think his slaves “would be benefitted by the change,” he wrote to his personal secretary.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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They reason that these chip companies could end up benefitting, even as AI costs go down.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, which are closest to the physical bottlenecks of the AI buildout, have been among the sectors benefitting most from the spending boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
But it has been the destruction of forests and mining further upstream which may have flushed the nutrients, like nitrogen, from soils into waterways, benefitting the mangroves down the river.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
It was a starry, starry night at Thursday’s sold-out Hollywood Bowl Netflix is a Joke Presents: Night of Too Many Stars epic comic bonanza fundraiser benefitting autism programs nationwide, including Autism Speaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
I've engaged to watch over you as a son, and I will do so as far as I'm able; but if you neglect my advice, what chance have I of benefitting you?
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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