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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The benefit of supporting a child’s language extends further than academics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“This should benefit high-quality semiconductor and hardware leaders.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
China's foreign ministry said in response that AI development was "fuelled" by the country's "vision of extensive consultation and joint contribution for shared benefit".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
For those who don’t know, the Direct Express card is a prepaid debit card on which a person’s federal benefit gets loaded each month.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A monster in the shape of a girl who had wanted so badly to fly she’d nearly tried it without the benefit of wings.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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Even after recognizing other financial benefits of ownership, such as a tax code that puts a thumb on the scale toward buying, opportunity cost makes the returns to homeownership considerably less spectacular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Ez Spring, a second year sports therapy student, drives 40 minutes each way to university and sees the benefits of living at home.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Researchers will need to determine whether topical ABT-263 can be used safely in humans and whether the wound healing benefits seen in mice translate to people.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
“By narrowing the management of these forests to a limited set of public benefits, this bill risks the state’s ability to fully demonstrate the best science-based practices,” he wrote Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The American colonies passed laws barring people convicted of crimes from a wide variety of jobs and benefits, automatically dissolving their marriages and denying them the right to enter contracts.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
Bitcoin benefited from a broader return to risk, adding 1.8% to $77,736.80.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
People use it derisively, as if to say that a kid has overly benefited from their advantages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
It would have also benefited from parts of the EU budget, but without full voting rights.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
I flinched at the slumming comment, but the truth was our businesses benefited from the tourism.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
There are those about unusual obsessions, like the Ford executive who kept score of colleagues’ verbal flubs, and odd jobs, like the hairy Utah men benefiting from a booming market for Jesus models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Vera Bradley is benefiting from its refreshed product assortment, a stepped-up marketing strategy, improved inventory management, and disciplined pricing and promotion governance, Bickley said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
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Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
She noted that Europe had long benefitted from "three pillars" -- a rules-based global order underpinned by US security guarantees, cheap energy and expanding global trade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
Like most things in the Night Zoo, the terms and conditions held by its indentured workers only benefitted one person.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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They reason that these chip companies could end up benefitting, even as AI costs go down.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Michael also overtook Oppenheimer despite Noan's film benefitting from the viral "Barbenheimer" phenomenon in the summer of 2023.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
And the removal of slavery is the great consummation to which all benevolent efforts for benefitting the African race in this country, should ultimately tend.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
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