benevolent

Example Sentences

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Simakis calls the group’s vision for the space “unrelenting joy mixed with benevolent chaos,” as well as “a beautiful folk art museum that’s also a space rave.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

"It is the only alliance that, until now, had a major player behaving like a benevolent hegemon, one that did not impose its actions on others by force," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

My mother’s tender caresses and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley