benefit
Usage
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Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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Still, the Dodgers could benefit from at least another third-string option at the physically and mentally demanding position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
All of these examples ultimately result in economic benefit and opportunity.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
“That calls for public policy that promotes innovation while also incentivising responsibility and security, fosters international collaboration on key safety issues, and encourages careful consideration of how AI is deployed for the benefit of society.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Although risk generally declined as coffee intake increased, the researchers found signs of benefit even among people who drank only one or two cups per day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The theory is, when black individuals achieve power for themselves, black people as a group benefit, as does society as a whole.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Motor companies like Mercury Marine are reaping the benefits, with some promising more powerful engines in the coming years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
A small clinical trial suggests that limiting food intake to fewer hours each day could provide modest cognitive benefits for older women, beyond those associated with weight loss alone.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
"We will ensure it is safe. We will ensure the good benefits of nuclear energy will be explained properly to the public."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
We look into the buzz and examine the science, risks and benefits behind the controversial gut-health trend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
It would all be for the greater good, and any harm done would be repaid a hundredfold in benefits for wizards.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the authors write, tried to ensure that only “honest but unfortunate” debtors benefited from bankruptcy’s by directing “professional bankrupts . . . to restitution or jail.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Others benefited from holding out: Price tags on certain refund claims have more than quadrupled since the ruling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Imax in recent years has benefited from other massive film successes, like last year’s “Sinners,” which also used some Imax cameras during shooting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
For the TV category, roughly 28% of the 1,607 shoot days last quarter were for projects that benefited from the tax incentive, particularly for dramas and comedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The rise in real estate values has, of course, benefited many of the old-timers.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Nevertheless, Europe is benefiting from a flicker of activity in the defence sector, notably with the stock market debut in Amsterdam of Czech arms giant CSG, at $4.47 billion, the third-largest deal worldwide since January.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Additionally, Post expects Alphabet’s capital spending to be “relatively efficient vs. peers, likely benefiting from TPU usage for internal AI capabilities,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
“BASF’s resilient supply setup should allow it to keep benefiting if disruptions persist, although weaker demand and working-capital pressure remain key risks,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
One area benefiting from that search: Shares of the railroads, airlines and trucks moving the goods and supplies powering the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
No one had any doubt that it was not the animals but their owners who were benefiting from the law.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The backdrop has Conger’s team underweight on the Magnificent Seven and semiconductors, which have benefitted from the artificial-intelligence spending blitz.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Curacao, Haiti and Panama, who benefitted from the extra places, scored three goals and conceded 21.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
A recent wave of worries about AI spending that has weighed on the chip sector is also now spreading to other parts of the market that benefitted from billions in data center buildout spending.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Washington did not think his slaves “would be benefitted by the change,” he wrote to his personal secretary.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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They reason that these chip companies could end up benefitting, even as AI costs go down.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Vance is still benefitting from “Hillbilly Elegy” as well.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was a starry, starry night at Thursday’s sold-out Hollywood Bowl Netflix is a Joke Presents: Night of Too Many Stars epic comic bonanza fundraiser benefitting autism programs nationwide, including Autism Speaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The marketing rules behind Medicare Advantage are about to get looser, benefitting brokers and agents that sell the private-insurance alternative to traditional Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
He is exceedingly anxious to know where I am, though without the smallest intention of benefitting me.
From The Mystery of the Four Fingers by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
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