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munificent

[myoo-nif-uh-suhnt] / myuˈnɪf ə sənt /


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The algorithm does that now, and it has propelled both Pauls into wealthy influencer titans, and Jake into the fight world’s munificent, polarizing Barnum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

California, the Court majority has offered the country a “teasing illusion like a munificent bequest in a pauper’s will.”

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2021

But it is possible to imagine China exploiting that medicine as a domestic moneymaker, or as leverage over developing countries to whom it will play the munificent benefactor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2020

On a recent visit to Ms. Catroux, occasioned by an exhibition based on a munificent donation she made of her wardrobe to the Yves Saint Laurent museum, we learned a thing or two.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2020

I did not feel munificent, but thankful, each time he would let me in.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood