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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“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
When you file at 70, she becomes eligible for a spousal benefit based on your record.
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
Until March 14, the stock market had given the big Wall Street firms the benefit of the doubt.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Under SSA rules, you must be receiving your benefits before your wife can claim on your record.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The benefits are so obvious, it’s such a home run and such a low-hanging fruit that for me, it’s like criminal not to make it happen,” he said.
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
After many months of intensive testing, I better understand their benefits and limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
No one at Cambridge taught the benefits of good marching order.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Li benefited from his connection with Tencent, an early investor in Futu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
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
In Agnew's opinion, even if the controversial germ theory did not explain the development of pus, his patients benefited from antiseptic methods.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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
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
Meanwhile, a stock-market rally fueled by the rise in shares of chip makers and other companies benefiting from the AI boom has led to a massive increase in household wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Along with other industrial firms such as France's Schneider Electric and Switzerland's ABB, Siemens has benefitted from demand for data centres that provide the computing power for AI.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 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
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
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
They reason that these chip companies could end up benefitting, even as AI costs go down.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Vance is still benefitting from “Hillbilly Elegy” as well.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 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
Too many years ago, the United States had offered to provide most of the funds for a "little TVA" on the river, benefitting both Israel and Jordan alike.
From The Golden Judge by Freas, Kelly
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