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boon

noun as in benefit, favor

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It’s a doom or boon for the community, depending on whom you ask.

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The Actor trophy also gives a boon to its winners in the run up to the Academy Awards, better bringing the Oscars race into focus each year.

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Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

Many in his own party, however, view it as a boon for lenders who will collect bigger fees and more interest.

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The data center buildout boom has been a boon to industrial stocks supplying electrical infrastructure.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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