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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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Moore will have the benefit Saturday of facing a struggling USC secondary.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

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

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

Marina Raskova wasn’t quite young enough to benefit from this program.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Padilla of Public Works acknowledged the hardship, but said the benefits would outweigh the short-term pain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The reordering of the credit-card market comes after issuers have tricked out top-flight cards with new benefits to justify higher fees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

These benefits are not the only appeal of exercise though.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

To get their full retirement benefits, a worker must wait until age 67, and waiting until age 70 increases benefits by an additional 24%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

And because of these ongoing efforts, huge ecological side benefits have been attained and continue to be achieved.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

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

Browne has benefited from the addition of two premier slot receivers in Florida Atlantic transfer Asaad Waseem and Iowa State transfer Xavier Townsend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

It would have also benefited from parts of the EU budget, but without full voting rights.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Gary Edwards certainly wasn’t the only one who had benefited by being a Carter Cowboy.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

There’s no question that Micron Technology is benefiting from robust artificial-intelligence spending.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

That guaranteed the teams with revenue, with brokers benefiting from a markup for popular games but taking the risk that tickets to less popular games would sell at a loss, or not at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

The fund follows William's decision to stop personally benefiting from the £1.5m annual rent generated by Dartmoor Prison, with the funding redirected into the local community.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Dear Miss Wright: We trust that you have been benefiting from your first year at the New York School of Fine Arts.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Archer benefitted from two miscues from mid-on, then came back to eventually end the Ali-Abbas last-wicket stand.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, Hosseini noted that logic chips, such as central processing units, have also benefitted from rising average prices, though “recent trends suggest a period of stabilization.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Appears to be benefitting from a run of games with the same back four.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

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

Vance is still benefitting from “Hillbilly Elegy” as well.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

“I suppose,” observes a fourth, “this is what Maddis calls benefitting his country.”

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt




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