benevolent
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“Happy building!” the benevolent boy king of A.I. told the world.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026
"It is the only alliance that, until now, had a major player behaving like a benevolent hegemon, one that did not impose its actions on others by force," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Sun Ra was a mythologist, in a very benevolent, deliberate, emancipative sense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
“My brother was a very benevolent, giving person who would help just about anybody,” Kurt’s brother, Peter Van Dyke, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
Now he used his spurious logic against benevolent Icelanders.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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