magnanimity

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By contrast, Starmer's been the model of magnanimity - offering Sarwar his "100%" support.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Instead, he responded with joking faux magnanimity: “I try not to blame women on their own,” he said.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2025

Renowned for our imagination, hustle and open-mindedness, Angelenos are called by this disaster to show magnanimity in the face of devastation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

“For years, A.Q.’s lavish lifestyle and tales of his wealth, properties, corrupt practices and financial magnanimity at state expense were generally all too well known in Islamabad’s social and government circles,” Musharraf later wrote.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023

Touched, Bernard felt himself at the same time humiliated by this magnanimity—a magnanimity the more extraordinary and therefore the more humiliating in that it owed nothing to soma and everything to Helmholtz’s character.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley