beneficent
Example Sentences
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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
She brought to the ghostly role her own expansive sense of history — once again revealing eternity through her beneficent, dazzling, invincible artistry.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024
I suppose it was then that the beneficent influence of the woman with the pearls went into effect, the one my grandfather and I went to see to thank her for saving my life.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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