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
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
While that guidance may sound beneficent for the web at large, it’s also influenced by Google’s self-interest.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2023
By outlining the cyclotron’s vast potential for advancing the peacetime goals of basic science, Ernest convinced Fosdick that the machine just might serve as a beneficent scientific counterbalance to Hiroshima.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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