munificent

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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

But, as Kalita pointed out to me, these efforts aren’t some munificent acts of benevolence that the privileged should pat themselves on the back for—they’re a moral obligation.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2021

It is the nature of things in a place where space is so scarce that a munificent policy gesture over here so quickly comes to seem like a shaft over there.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 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

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

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood