beneficent
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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
Isn’t giving your money away going to have the greatest beneficent impact on the most people?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
Virgil’s journey toward a beneficent existence starts with a family member’s funeral, continues through another relative’s hospice stay and then achieves fulfillment with our hero’s compassion-driven decision to look after the dead.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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