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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The government said manufacturers were also expected to benefit from measures to reduce industrial electricity costs and support investment in the sector.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Computational techniques could then be used to search for combinations of variation that provide the greatest benefit.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
It would benefit traditional newspapers as well as other sources of local news, including the growing number of independent nonprofit newsrooms popping up in communities around the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Companies exposed to AI and data centers should benefit, while those reliant on PCs and smartphones could face pressure from higher memory costs, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He knew her words were for his benefit.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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“Any technology has risks. Any new technology brings both risks and benefits . . . I don’t think Americans should be scared of anything.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ohio’s legislature also passed a new law mandating chip cards for benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“If the Olympics are coming to town, we want to make sure there are lasting benefits for our communities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Nobody's tough enough to deal with the immigration problem. Nobody's tough enough to deal with the benefits problem. But somebody needs to do it," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
They formed a union and fought for proper contracts, health benefits, and protections against arbitrary firing, and along with that came a push for fairness in hiring.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Browne has benefited from the addition of two premier slot receivers in Florida Atlantic transfer Asaad Waseem and Iowa State transfer Xavier Townsend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It would have also benefited from parts of the EU budget, but without full voting rights.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
They are questioning whether the town has benefited from this, and want a pause on data centre development in the town.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Taiwan has benefited significantly from the artificial-intelligence supply chain, which has powered its economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I imagine that everyone benefited from your willingness to share the bars of soap your mother sent.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Shippers who work with the traders to move cargo are also benefiting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
One billion people — mostly English speakers — are benefiting from improving AI systems, while another 7 billion are largely left behind, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
My partner started doing it and I saw how much he was benefiting from it, so I decided to go and take the course and just loved it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They returned to work in high numbers after the pandemic, benefiting from a climate in which businesses were offering better benefits, more flexibility and higher pay, which allowed them to move into good jobs.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Since when did Ritu auntie think in terms of benefiting a woman’s career?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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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
Meanwhile the Myanmar military has benefitted from training and new equipment from Russia and China.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
In the new era of revenue sharing, particularly because of NIL rights, student athletes have benefitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Although slavery is mostly associated with the American South, the entire country, as it grew, benefitted from the enslavement of people, primarily Africans and African Americans.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
Bangladesh dominated Australia on day one of the first Test, despite Steve Smith benefitting from being given not out on review to a ball he later said he nicked.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Vance is still benefitting from “Hillbilly Elegy” as well.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 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
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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