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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This would probably benefit customers who don't use much gas, but heavy users could end up paying more.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
But it also might eventually benefit the next cane-growing season, Roemer noted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Some of the higher-hour providers point to guidelines by industry group Council of Autism Service Providers, which say patients with significant needs can benefit from 30 to 40 hours a week of ABA treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Sadly, Hurts hasn’t been given the benefit of the doubt.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
He knew her words were for his benefit.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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Combined with the benefits of daily exercise, the heart's ability to adapt to weightlessness and respond well to simulated Martian gravity offers another reason to be optimistic about sending humans to the Red Planet.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
He also evangelizes about the benefits it will bring to the study of biology, mathematics and physics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The commercials tout the security of gold, silver and other precious metals against imminent financial chaos and tell of the benefits of ‘investing’ through Rosland Capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Amazon’s seasonal employees earn an average of $20 an hour and have access to a range of benefits and the opportunity to transition into full-time roles, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He had even tried to help her with the mountain of paperwork and red tape that had been dumped on them in order to get survivor benefits from the trucking company.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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GM has benefited from its lineup of trucks and its resistance to boosting discounts, according to analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The company said it benefited from higher global beverage-can volumes and that it managed to pass through $405 million of higher material costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Despite that, England have, statistically at least, benefited most from the rule change, though it should be noted they have taken a significant step forward with their ODI cricket this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It was important to them that if they were going to tell a story about Puerto Rico that was also shot in Puerto Rico, that Puerto Ricans on the island actually benefited from the production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Yet White and his team were able to show how Hale benefited from at least two of these other killings.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Conventional wisdom suggests healthcare is benefiting from its defensive nature — consumer demand is based on need, rather than want — amid growing investor worries about the sustainability of the artificial-intelligence trade.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
More than 870 solar-powered water pumps have already been installed out of the 1,300 planned, benefiting half a million Cubans across the country, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Its strategy for selling powerful supercomputers makes it relatively unique among the businesses benefiting most from the world’s unprecedented AI infrastructure build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The charity said in its early years it gave financial support to a number of larger community projects benefiting children but there was now an increasing focus on helping individual children and families.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
So have the early researchers, like Dr. Strayer, who were often sailing against headwinds generated by the corporations and profiteers benefiting from connected drivers.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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In speeches at the event Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, and Corey O’Connor, Pittsburgh’s mayor, both spoke of the ways developments from CMU have historically benefitted the city and state.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
She noted that Europe had long benefitted from "three pillars" -- a rules-based global order underpinned by US security guarantees, cheap energy and expanding global trade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Ghana has been spearheading a global campaign for institutions and nations across the world that benefitted from the slave trade to pay reparations.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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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Oil-services company Halliburton reported quarterly earnings and revenue growth, benefitting from elevated oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Keith Southwell, managing director of Lappa Valley Railway, said it "hadn't made any difference whatsoever" to his business, with many customers "benefitting but not even realising".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chacin said the expanded police presence could help stem violence, but that tackling organized crime required, above all, following the money -- investigating how the proceeds are laundered and who is benefitting most.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, groups such as his are benefitting from the government brain drain.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead of benefitting the trachea, it produced a sympathetic affection of the stomach and diaphragm, and the oesophagus formed the medium of communication between the patient and myself.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various
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