benefiting

VERB

help, enhance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance aid assist contribute to favor further improve pay pay off promote serve

STRONG

advantage ameliorate avail better build profit relieve succor

WEAK

be good for do for one do the trick fill the bill make a killing make it work for

Antonyms

STRONGEST

block decrease halt hinder hurt impede injure obstruct stop thwart

STRONG

worsen

WEAK

harm

Example Sentences

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The figures add to the growing body of evidence that the richest Americans are disproportionately benefiting from the white-hot stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Sandisk is benefiting from artificial-intelligence demand and a memory supply shortage that have boosted prices.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

He was also accused of benefiting from 809bn rupiah worth of transactions involving Gojek's holding company.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

Palantir is benefiting from the broader defense shift toward AI-enabled targeting, data-fusion and battlefield-decision software.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

“What I don’t understand is how anybody can say that Obama is benefiting because he’s a black man,” Paula said.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie