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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Essentially, the team started the season with a chassis advantage over some rivals and that allowed them to benefit as others were still finding their feet.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
L3Harris, General Dynamics, and other defense companies could benefit from the ramp-up.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The German economy continues to benefit from the government’s infrastructure investment plan, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
In an interview, Gaspar said the City Council could benefit from his business experience to counter members whose backgrounds are mostly in public policy or community organizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Another benefit of the sage age of fourteen: There are many things you just know.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Inviting the client to weigh the costs and benefits of risk-taking can also prove instructive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s all further complicated by the loss of government benefits over the past year.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pyongyang's participation in the war has brought the impoverished country economic and military benefits as well as valuable battlefield experience, analysts say.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some employers across the U.S., like Costco, offer better-than-usual retirement benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
She talked about the benefits of using women in the space program.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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I think my work has benefited greatly from that gentle parenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
People who run service orgs with low budgets and benefited for years from Microsoft’s programs no longer have much of the technology they need to keep things going—for either the short or long term.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The demand for formal apologies, debt relief and financial compensation from nations and institutions that benefited from slavery has become increasingly forceful.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Over many decades, homeowners benefited handsomely from leverage, because they were able to borrow cheaply for 30 years at low fixed interest rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Nobody in Springfield ever benefited from the Merry Widow Insurance Company. bused/buses.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Faster interconnections would have helped raise overall power prices, benefiting Texas-exposed Vistra and NRG.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
CoreWeave is broadening its customer base and benefiting from upbeat pricing dynamics, analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Blanche has taken steps to curry Murkowski’s favor in recent months, visiting Alaska and announcing a $400-million settlement benefiting Alaska natives’ healthcare in July.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
China has been able to use less powerful chips to train and run some AI models, but its more advanced versions “are clearly benefiting from Nvidia,” Newman said in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Dear Miss Wright: We trust that you have been benefiting from your first year at the New York School of Fine Arts.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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"If we had started this years ago, everyone would have benefitted," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
On an individual level, Guehi and Palace back then would have benefitted from crowding Haaland out – one of the few ways teams have muted his influence.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
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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Meanwhile, groups such as his are benefitting from the government brain drain.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, which are closest to the physical bottlenecks of the AI buildout, have been among the sectors benefitting most from the spending boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Michael also overtook Oppenheimer despite Noan's film benefitting from the viral "Barbenheimer" phenomenon in the summer of 2023.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
We've no business to complain of a situation we're all benefitting by.
From Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair
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