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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All of them will benefit from some additional rest before their playoff opener, at Dodger Stadium, on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Davidson’s Gil Luria told MarketWatch that Microsoft is “finally getting credit again for how well it is positioned to benefit from the growth of AI.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
This should benefit Societe Generale’s valuation over the medium-to-long-term, Perret says, while it continues to close the profitability gap with peer BNP Paribas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Moore will have the benefit Saturday of facing a struggling USC secondary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
What are some ways to work with the specialists to benefit the student’s learning experience?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Padilla of Public Works acknowledged the hardship, but said the benefits would outweigh the short-term pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Stansfield added he hoped the strategy would get organisations, landowners and local people to take action "to ensure our natural environment becomes more robust and resilient to provide the benefits we often take for granted".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
As card fees increase, issuers are adding more brand-partnered perks that help the math work out for the consumer—statement credits at specific stores or restaurants or other benefits that make that heftier fee worth it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The earliest an individual can claim Social Security benefits is at age 62, but doing so results in a benefit that is permanently reduced by as much as 30%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The financial benefits of becoming a permanent resident would also finally ease the burden of college tuition on my parents.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Darden Restaurants said the World Cup benefited its Yard House sports-bar chain but was a negative overall for the company’s latest quarterly results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The company benefited from the largesse of the legendary Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, multiple former Navatek executives and employees said, whose family had been close to the Loui family for generations.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
IQE has benefited from the recent boom in AI because its chips are part of the physical architecture of data centres.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
People use it derisively, as if to say that a kid has overly benefited from their advantages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He told the German officials that he was an importer in America, hinting that Germany somehow benefited from his work.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
There’s no question that Micron Technology is benefiting from robust artificial-intelligence spending.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
High oil prices are benefiting producers—even some of those dependent on the Strait of Hormuz—by offsetting lower export volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
There are those about unusual obsessions, like the Ford executive who kept score of colleagues’ verbal flubs, and odd jobs, like the hairy Utah men benefiting from a booming market for Jesus models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
My partner started doing it and I saw how much he was benefiting from it, so I decided to go and take the course and just loved it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
“What I don’t understand is how anybody can say that Obama is benefiting because he’s a black man,” Paula said.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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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Meanwhile, groups such as his are benefitting from the government brain drain.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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
Michael also overtook Oppenheimer despite Noan's film benefitting from the viral "Barbenheimer" phenomenon in the summer of 2023.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
He is exceedingly anxious to know where I am, though without the smallest intention of benefitting me.
From The Mystery of the Four Fingers by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
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