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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Fans benefit from a Walter partnership on a daily basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
There’s a hidden benefit to spending a vast sum of money to buy a pro sports team.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Cruise operators say the moves help compete for talent, while some passengers suspect the companies benefit more than the crew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Paying their tuition lets you see them benefit from the money you’re giving them, without any extra financial hurdles to jump over.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The theory is, when black individuals achieve power for themselves, black people as a group benefit, as does society as a whole.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
But it still benefits from China's unique combination of a huge low-cost textile manufacturing sector and a highly sophisticated e-commerce logistics network.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
The terms “were uneconomic, unfair and undermined the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The formula can also change depending on what benefits the individual is applying for.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
"If these things didn't exist, you'd be outside of society. A cup of coffee on my current benefits is more than what I get on my daily allowance."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
As you can probably tell, I’d spent so many years inside my protected gymnastics bubble, I was only just beginning to understand the benefits of turning pro.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
The earlier “Insidious” films benefited from the magnetism of Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne, who played the concerned parents of a young boy who fell into the Further’s clutches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Like many other drugmakers and biotechs, both companies have benefited from the investor rotation to healthcare and away from AI stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
People who run service orgs with low budgets and benefited for years from Microsoft’s programs no longer have much of the technology they need to keep things going—for either the short or long term.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The demand for formal apologies, debt relief and financial compensation from nations and institutions that benefited from slavery has become increasingly forceful.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
I looked through probate records to see who would have benefited from his death.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Malcolm Penn, chairman of the semiconductor consultancy Future Horizons, said AT&S was one of few European companies directly benefiting from booming demand for AI hardware.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Hamilton benefited from that by leaving his run late and benefiting from the usual improvement in track conditions through qualifying to pip Leclerc by 0.064secs.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
One asset benefiting from the market turmoil is bitcoin, which was recently up almost 6% and briefly neared $80,000 early this morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Neocloud companies are providers of computing power that are benefiting from massive investment by hyperscalers as the artificial-intelligence infrastructure build-out continues.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
No one had any doubt that it was not the animals but their owners who were benefiting from the law.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"If we had started this years ago, everyone would have benefitted," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He said teams had benefitted from low wind and light rain earlier on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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
Bangladesh dominated Australia on day one of the first Test, despite Steve Smith benefitting from being given not out on review to a ball he later said he nicked.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
He expects the array of industries and companies benefitting from the AI boom to continue broadening out in the months ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Vance is still benefitting from “Hillbilly Elegy” as well.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 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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