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munificent

[myoo-nif-uh-suhnt] / myuˈnɪf ə sənt /


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Visor-wearing buzzards with farmer’s tans are circling the Saudi-backed league as the Kingdom considers terminating its munificent support of the lavish and comically irrelevant golf concern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But it is possible to imagine China exploiting that medicine as a domestic moneymaker, or as leverage over developing countries to whom it will play the munificent benefactor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2020

This is possible only thanks to a fabulously munificent philanthropist, but it has played a big part in reversing the city’s exodus of people.

From Economist • Jul. 19, 2018

The best song Oscars category has always been a curious creature, a mash-up of hits, snoozers and misfires, and a munificent source of Academy Awards moments that can astonish, or bore, or mortify.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2018

I did not feel munificent, but thankful, each time he would let me in.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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