beneficence
Example Sentences
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Thanks to a delicate balance of force, beneficence, and self-interest, the United States would enjoy both great national wealth and historically unprecedented global dominance.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
This is not, however, the result of cultural beneficence.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
Principle of beneficence: The principle of beneficence proposes that we should act in ways that benefit others or that are for the good of others.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing beneficence
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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The Federalist Papers, No. 14 by James Madison
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