magnanimous
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But Jack’s magnanimous offer is also a booby trap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Napoleon could not have expected such magnanimous treatment from the British.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson—former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project—to step forward.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026
Guardiola was probably being magnanimous due to his side's disappointing performance in the derby loss at Old Trafford.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life.'
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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