generous
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Public company boards typically bar top executives from taking significant stakes in outside ventures, and they award them with generous compensation packages, including equity shares, that are tied to future stock performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Any generous cash provider like Allbirds’ $50 million investor appears all the more enticing in those circumstances, especially if the deal trade-offs seem like they’re cool and hip and with the times.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
Taylor's mother Trudi Walsh described her son as "a generous soul" and said that things would "never get easier" for the family.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
That’s a generous reading of the bilateral zeitgeist at a tempestuous moment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The other package was a generous pile of large notepads, and a supply of pencils, all printed with ‘Overland Automobile Company’, also complimentary.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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