beneficence
Example Sentences
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The public appears to be less tolerant of high-tech executives’ claims of public beneficence than it has been in years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
“We presume that beneficence, compassion, empathy, sympathy or kindness will be processed by this other culture in ways similar or identical to ours.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Thanks to a delicate balance of force, beneficence, and self-interest, the United States would enjoy both great national wealth and historically unprecedented global dominance.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2024
Erwin’s beneficence, however, did not silence the rising critics of a system that traded informal “favors” for complete submission to the owner’s authority.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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