salutary

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Big picture: The smaller trade deficit in January might have one salutary effect: It could help pad the increase in gross domestic product in the first quarter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

It will have the most salutary effect in the area of medical diagnostics and devices.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

The overall message to our adversaries is salutary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026

“I do think that, ultimately, it’s a salutary thing,” she says of the entertainment industry’s newfound race consciousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë