benevolent

Example Sentences

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He’s a mostly benevolent tyrant, but his crotchety side can get ugly and he’s not always in control of his temper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

And the federal government’s entry into migration sounds benevolent, but only one state had benevolent migration laws, and that was New York.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

By 1908, Wilhelm’s attitude toward the U.S. was more benevolent, and he offered President Theodore Roosevelt an elite corps of Prussian soldiers to be posted in California, supposedly to fend off a Japanese invasion.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Sun Ra was a mythologist, in a very benevolent, deliberate, emancipative sense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

We used it every day; it’s how we would locate the address of a locksmith or florist or furniture upholsterer, or any number of the women who volunteered in my mother’s benevolent societies.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse