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benefit

[ben-uh-fit] / ˈbɛn ə fɪt /




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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.


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“Sustainable infrastructure development means that communities must benefit significantly from each project,” Zuckerberg writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

As a referee, Barton found an immediate benefit.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

The news helped Wall Street higher, with the S&P 500 ending at a fresh record high, while tech firms -- which benefit from lower rates -- helped the Nasdaq pile on more than one percent.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Whether hereditary units were divisible or indivisible did not particularly bother him; what concerned him was whether heredity was actionable or inactionable: whether human inheritance could be manipulated for human benefit.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Under SSA rules, you must be receiving your benefits before your wife can claim on your record.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

The path also could provide recreational benefits to an area that has some of the most limited access to green space in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

But many Zambians say the benefits have been slow to reach ordinary citizens.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

To pay for this, the district sought to raid its retiree health benefits fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Dr. Remile suddenly ascertained that I was due some government benefits, being the child of a veteran.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Like other producers, Netflix has benefited from improvements to California’s tax incentive program intended to stem so-called runaway production, though Bajaria said the program is not as “comprehensive” as it needs to be.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Silicon technology has benefited from decades of refinement, allowing manufacturers to produce dielectric materials capable of controlling progressively smaller devices.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

And while South Korea and Japan have benefited this year from a surge in exports related to artificial intelligence, swaths of industry under the surface are losing global market share.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

For now, beleaguered Fifa president Gianni Infantino still has some allies in world football, particularly in parts of the world where less well-off football associations have benefited from his presidency.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

The authors theorized that the theater students benefited by spending time “reading and learning lines as actors, and possibly reading to carry out research about characters and their settings.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Blanche has taken steps to curry Murkowski’s favor in recent months, visiting Alaska and announcing a $400-million settlement benefiting Alaska natives’ healthcare in July.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The company is benefiting from revised Excelsior Nickel Cobalt project acquisition terms, planned downstream investments and a debt refinancing, says MS.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Car sales have been surprisingly strong in 2026, benefiting from the so-called wealth effect tied to the boom in U.S. stocks.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Alex Vatanka, another senior fellow from the Middle East Institute, summed up the situation, describing it as a "lose-lose equation" in which "neither side is benefiting."

From Barron's Jul. 31, 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

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

Meanwhile, groups such as his are benefitting from the government brain drain.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

They reason that these chip companies could end up benefitting, even as AI costs go down.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 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

At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2026

Mark continued taciturn as ever, though his enormous mustachios seemed to grow constantly, as if benefitting by the energy that should have gone into speech.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis




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