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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“We need to not look at it in a vacuum and give these people the benefit of the doubt and question whether they really knew what they were filling out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
"What's the benefit for us, for triathlon? It's nothing against Hyrox," said Slupek.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Meanwhile, Aurora said the deal provides an immediate valuation benefit while blocking a disruptive takeover battle that has played out since August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The broader idea challenges the assumption that every unusual biological feature must have evolved because it provided a direct survival benefit.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
In each location the reunion drew large crowds, in which witnesses claimed they saw two ghosts from a bygone era materializing one final time for the benefit of the present generation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Furthermore, plenty of laws have benefits and burdens that fall unevenly across different groups.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
Analysts were surprised by the initial reports that such a transaction was coming, though they attributed the decision to legislative worries for its pharmacy benefits business.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Total revenue climbed over 5% to $108.4 billion from $102.9 billion, driven by growth in its health services and health care benefits segments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The ultimate challenge will be establishing whether its apparent advantages in animals translate into meaningful benefits for patients.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
They had said this to her as if outlining the terms of a job offer, laying out the benefits package in the most attractive way.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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The UK royal family benefited from the trade but Charles is politically neutral and is not expected to offer an apology.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The U.K. drugmaker benefited from strong sales of cancer drugs that offset the effect of patent expirations and lifted the group’s top line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Bass, for her part, benefited from $2 million in spending by the downtown-based Central City Assn. during the runoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
While Reddit may have benefited from this lag as its revenue was improving, the lower-than-expected forecast and drop in daily active uniques in the U.S. suggests the opposite is occurring, the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
I looked through probate records to see who would have benefited from his death.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Tigress Financial Partners analyst Ivan Feinseth told MarketWatch that Microsoft and Amazon were benefiting from “a combination of post-election relief, declining policy uncertainty, renewed investor enthusiasm for AI and cloud computing and significant short covering.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Chief Executive Niraj Shah said the quarter was the strongest in the post-pandemic period, benefiting from an over 11% rise in U.S. net revenue to $3 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
There wasn’t an obvious catalyst driving shares higher, but they were probably just benefiting from a broader market rebound.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Verstappen benefiting from the internal battle to take his third win in four races.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 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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Both producers posted a sharp increase in third-quarter earnings as their oil refining units benefitted from a spike in fuel prices related to war-related disruptions in Middle East and Russian exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In speeches at the event Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, and Corey O’Connor, Pittsburgh’s mayor, both spoke of the ways developments from CMU have historically benefitted the city and state.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Along with other industrial firms such as France's Schneider Electric and Switzerland's ABB, Siemens has benefitted from demand for data centres that provide the computing power for AI.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Newcomen must have benefitted from either Savery’s or Papin’s expertise.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Oil-services company Halliburton reported quarterly earnings and revenue growth, benefitting from elevated oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
A spokesperson for the Treasury said pubs "were already benefitting from a 20% cut in business rates", with Prime Minister Andy Burnham previously calling it "the first step" to help the industry.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Tesla shares may also be benefitting from the company’s recent disclosure that it would provide details next month about the European launch of its electric Semi truck.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Chacin said the expanded police presence could help stem violence, but that tackling organized crime required, above all, following the money -- investigating how the proceeds are laundered and who is benefitting most.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Let these reflections raise you above the trifles that amuse without benefitting you.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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