salutary

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Big picture: The smaller trade deficit in January might have one salutary effect: It could help pad the increase in gross domestic product in the first quarter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

It will have the most salutary effect in the area of medical diagnostics and devices.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

I doubt he’ll have much luck with his billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, but the overall effect of the affair should be salutary for the BBC and for journalism everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Finally, the Espionage Act is a strict liability law, meaning that a defendant’s intentions — whether salutary, malevolent, purely selfish or some combination thereof — are entirely irrelevant.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2024

The histories of the Fertile Crescent and China also hold a salutary lesson for the modern world: circumstances change, and past primacy is no guarantee of future primacy.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond