benefit
Usage
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Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.
Example Sentences
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Despite the lack of a significant overall benefit, the researchers identified a potentially important finding among participants who entered the trial with more severe hypertension.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
"AI will transform daily life: every firm, community, hospital, school, and every aspect of our economy can benefit," John Healey said.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The researchers say larger clinical trials will be essential to confirm the encouraging results in patients with severe hypertension and identify which groups, if any, could benefit most from this approach.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Just as resource-abundant economies benefit from rising commodity prices, chip-producing economies have benefited from the premium associated with ‘chipflation,’” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He knew her words were for his benefit.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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Researchers must also establish whether antibody testing provides meaningful benefits beyond existing genetic information, clinical assessments, and other blood-based measurements.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
On that basis, looking at the basic state pension, retirement benefits in the UK look low compared with other wealthy countries.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Then,” he said, “I think people could really start feeling the benefits of AI directly in their lives.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Researchers emphasize that larger studies are needed to determine whether the approach can provide meaningful benefits and which patients might respond best.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
One of the benefits of being the athlete that is often overlooked is that it forces you to work harder, to keep your head down, and grind through whatever task lies ahead.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Chief Executive Olivier Le Peuch said SLB benefited from growth in North America land, as well as a gradual recovery in the Middle East and broadening international activity in deepwater offshore basins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Companies benefited from increased demand among U.S. households and businesses as well as a pickup in export orders.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Safe havens benefited, with the yen rallying against the dollar, helped by strong Japanese inflation data that boosted bets on another interest rate hike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Analyses conducted by WEHI's genomics and bioinformatics teams revealed that patients with stronger gamma delta T cell signatures were among those who benefited most from immunotherapy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Instead, Dasch lied again, telling them he was a salesman for an importer and exporter of goods that had secretly benefited Nazi Germany.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The company on Thursday announced better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, once again benefiting from higher activity levels across all of its segments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
And investors buying Treasurys today could potentially collect 5%-plus income while also benefiting from capital appreciation if yields fall.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Its work aims to improve understanding of common diseases and translate laboratory discoveries into new approaches to treatment, benefiting patients in Singapore and internationally.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Downward revisions were most pronounced in countries that face stronger inflationary pressures without benefiting from the tech boom, the fund said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
They were benefiting from people who were running for their lives.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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In speeches at the event Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, and Corey O’Connor, Pittsburgh’s mayor, both spoke of the ways developments from CMU have historically benefitted the city and state.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Archer benefitted from two miscues from mid-on, then came back to eventually end the Ali-Abbas last-wicket stand.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bitcoin has, along with gold and silver, also benefitted from the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"If we had started this years ago, everyone would have benefitted," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Like most things in the Night Zoo, the terms and conditions held by its indentured workers only benefitted one person.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Oil-services company Halliburton reported quarterly earnings and revenue growth, benefitting from elevated oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Rebecca Wettemann, CEO of technology-research firm Valoir, said Nvidia was likely benefitting from a general market rebound on Wednesday as investors responded to momentum in oil prices and a pullback in Treasury yields.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Keith Southwell, managing director of Lappa Valley Railway, said it "hadn't made any difference whatsoever" to his business, with many customers "benefitting but not even realising".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Chacin said the expanded police presence could help stem violence, but that tackling organized crime required, above all, following the money -- investigating how the proceeds are laundered and who is benefitting most.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Let these reflections raise you above the trifles that amuse without benefitting you.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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