benefit
Usage
What are other ways to say benefit?
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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Those who benefit from misinformation can easily exploit this -- a phenomenon researchers call the "liar's dividend," where genuine but unflattering information is waved away as AI-generated.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Applied Materials shares look set to continue to benefit from recent chip-sector strength, while Broadcom’s stock should rebound as AI-chip revenue grows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"At the moment, at least, we do not benefit from the core business model that clubs 100 years old in our division have, whether gate receipts or food‑and‑beverage income," Owen said.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Analyst Melissa Weathers said that Applied Materials looks primed to benefit from recent chip-sector strength and an uptick in demand for its dynamic random-access memory chips — a major revenue segment for the company.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Duane’s eyes suddenly widened because he finally understood what “conducting experiments for the advancement of knowledge toward the benefit of all” truly meant, and he was grateful.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
