generous
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“I thought you should know that I recently received a kidney transplant from a very kind and generous living donor,” Hall wrote in an Instagram post.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
The beauty of a generous bread service is that it doesn’t require a generous budget.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
There are a number of weird swerves in this generous, if convoluted, offer from your relative.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
Cather’s generous pioneer tableau represented, to borrow her words, “the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
The pizzas smelled delicious—he'd been generous with the garlic and anchovies—but I had no appetite.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Vocabulary lists containing generous
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