goodwill

Example Sentences

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Stripping out one-time items, such as those goodwill and intangible-assets impairment charges, earnings were 95 cents a share.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pezeshkian meanwhile said the success of diplomacy depended on the "goodwill of the parties involved and the abandonment of belligerent and threatening actions in the region," his office said.

From Barron's

Food does what small talk so often can’t: it lowers the stakes, signals goodwill, and creates a tiny bridge where there was previously just a hallway.

From Salon

The People's Republic of China has used giant pandas as a gesture of goodwill towards its international allies and competitors since it was founded in 1949.

From BBC

Call it the goodwill that comes from creating a catalog of solid and critically acclaimed albums, or a testament to the core trio of Johnson, Ebert and Knobbe still being together after all these years.

From Los Angeles Times