beneficent
Example Sentences
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At the other end, three nuns from Chicago quietly chatter, favoring passers-by with beneficent smiles.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
I want to have the greatest beneficent impact on the largest number of people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
Yet it is the principal instrument for U.S. “soft power” and has done much, over the decades, to mold America’s image—to the extent it has one—as a beneficent country.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025
She brought to the ghostly role her own expansive sense of history — once again revealing eternity through her beneficent, dazzling, invincible artistry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024
The beneficent snowfall and kroxet—windless weather 0°F and 20°—that had seen us through Tarrenpeth and out of range of probable pursuit, now dissolved wretchedly into above-freezing temperatures and rain.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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