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benefit

[ben-uh-fit] / ˈbɛn ə fɪt /




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.


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“Given her strong professional reputation and credibility, we believe investors are likely to give her the benefit of the doubt,” said Jeffrosenberg Chen Lim, head of Indonesia research at Maybank.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

A huge wrinkle is that larger cities and metro areas benefit from economies of scale that help insulate them: they can afford dedicated OT security staff and redundant control systems.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

So when a friend in Tuscaloosa asked her to play a benefit concert that December, she used the opportunity to reach out to Fogg and Cockrell.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

So-called public benefit corporations do actually exist, and with a triple bottom line: a dedication to people, planet and profit, essentially in that order.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

But Miss Philips just said she didn’t know of any shot that would benefit Leroy, and anyway, all her sympathies were with the snake.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

The increased responsibility players have to interpret the game has benefits and trade-offs as with all tactical approaches.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Although advanced maternal age is often associated with harmful outcomes, genetic variation may sometimes reduce those effects or even produce benefits.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Homeowner associations and ecologists argued for more lenient rules, saying plants carried health benefits and stricter regulations burdened homeowners.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

In a sweeping, very entertaining investigative account, Dan Kois delves into the history and benefits of bar soap and why it’s worth fighting for.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

One of the early studies that spurred a rather heightened curiosity of the benefits of music was dubbed the “Mozart Effect.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Moskow noted that the pressure on Hidden Valley Ranch sales comes after the brand had benefited from heightened consumer interest during the World Cup earlier this summer, when international fans became enamored with ranch flavoring.

From MarketWatch 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

Several years later, World War I served as the “force multiplier” for newsreels, which benefited from cameras becoming smaller and lighter, and newsreel editors and cameramen more professional.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

The authors theorized that the theater students benefited by spending time “reading and learning lines as actors, and possibly reading to carry out research about characters and their settings.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

But the scientists said that their findings do suggest that these "opportunistic" baleen whales appear to be adapting and might even be benefiting from the change.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

“But making that effort especially matters when it’s directly benefiting people in our community.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Flush with cash after benefiting from the surge in memory-chip demand, SK Hynix plans to deliver some of that money back to shareholders.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

The company is benefiting from revised Excelsior Nickel Cobalt project acquisition terms, planned downstream investments and a debt refinancing, says MS.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

“What I don’t understand is how anybody can say that Obama is benefiting because he’s a black man,” Paula said.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She noted that Europe had long benefitted from "three pillars" -- a rules-based global order underpinned by US security guarantees, cheap energy and expanding global trade.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 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

The argument went that we benefitted from compulsory education, as it provides a livelihood for formerly enslaved, who couldn’t find gainful employment after the war.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Chacin said the expanded police presence could help stem violence, but that tackling organized crime required, above all, following the money -- investigating how the proceeds are laundered and who is benefitting most.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

But it has been the destruction of forests and mining further upstream which may have flushed the nutrients, like nitrogen, from soils into waterways, benefitting the mangroves down the river.

From BBC Jun. 4, 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

The marketing rules behind Medicare Advantage are about to get looser, benefitting brokers and agents that sell the private-insurance alternative to traditional Medicare.

From MarketWatch Apr. 24, 2026

He accordingly departed in the morning, arrayed in hunter's style, and well appointed with everything benefitting his vocation.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville




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