beneficent

Example Sentences

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At the other end, three nuns from Chicago quietly chatter, favoring passers-by with beneficent smiles.

From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026

Isn’t giving your money away going to have the greatest beneficent impact on the most people?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Yet it is the principal instrument for U.S. “soft power” and has done much, over the decades, to mold America’s image—to the extent it has one—as a beneficent country.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025

When Butler’s Prospero refers to Miranda as “a third of mine own life” while bestowing her on Ferdinand, he seems more resentful than beneficent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Everything important to the farm was under the care of a beneficent power, never conceived of as having a definite shape.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton