benevolent
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Dolly Parton — the “queen of country,” benevolent ruler of Dollywood and America’s true sweetheart — died at age 80 last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
"On the undisputed facts it was, at least in part, a benevolent public health programme with the aim of saving lives."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Any singular superintelligence would have to prioritize some values over others and in the process would be incapable of being benevolent to everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show’s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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