How to Use beneficiary in a Sentence
beneficiary
noun- The college was a beneficiary of the private grant.
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At the same time, the number of beneficiaries rose by 22 percent over the past decade.
—Mark Miller, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
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Through six games, Mike Hall Jr. seems to be the biggest beneficiary of this, with a team-high 4.5 sacks.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
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Nvidia has been the biggest beneficiary of the AI boom.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
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While Edey didn't have his usual night on the glass, Furst was the beneficiary.
—Sam King, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
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The lower the price is, the more that the Medicare program and many Medicare beneficiaries spend.
—ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
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Both pleaded not guilty in July 2021 to the tax scheme, of which the CFO was the biggest beneficiary.
—Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022
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Meta Platforms is a big beneficiary of the rise of Shein.
—Jon Markman, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
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Nvidia has been one of the main beneficiaries of the AI boom, seeing its sales surge on demand for chips.
—Carly Wanna, Fortune, 26 May 2023
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But to this day, the U.S. remains the largest beneficiary of the shortcut, with most of the traffic through the canal coming from or going to a U.S. port.
—Carla Martinez MacHain, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
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Already, the country is the seventh top exporter of goods to the US and a beneficiary of the trade war with China.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
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Howard also had named a small boy as a beneficiary and set aside $3,000 for him.
—Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2022
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And the state can’t put a claim on it if there is a co-owner who outlives the Medi-Cal beneficiary.
—Bernard J. Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
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Clyde Tolson was the chief beneficiary of Hoover’s will and received the flag that had been placed on his coffin.
—Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
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And, at least for the moment, Colorado is the beneficiary.
—Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
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At the time, he was married, so his wife was named as beneficiary.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
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Tech and other high-growth stocks are seen as some of the biggest beneficiaries if the Fed eases off rate hikes.
—Joe McDonald, ajc, 14 June 2023
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The beneficiary was his son who, probably at the time, was 3 or 4 years old.
—CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
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Many actors and writers have no doubt been lucky enough to be beneficiaries of some of these strategies in the short term.
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Medicare beneficiaries would have to pay based on the net price, rather than the list price, under the new proposal.
—Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
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With the help of a local contact, the art house quickly homed in on Ohmatdyt as a beneficiary.
—Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
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The Ukrainian band was the beneficiary of a last-minute wave of 439 votes from the television audience that put it in front.
—NBC News, 15 May 2022
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But the lack of a payment this month could still come as a rude surprise to some beneficiaries who weren't prepared for or aware of the shift in payment dates.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2024
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My mother, born in 1930 in the Jim Crow South, was indeed a beneficiary of this movement's work.
—Omisade Burney-Scott, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2022
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Nvidia - the dominant player in the GPU space - has been the biggest beneficiary of the trend thus far, with its stock up almost 3.5x this year.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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Her attorney is sharp and asks for copies of any trusts that daughter may be a beneficiary of.
—Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
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Airbnb has been a major beneficiary of the work and lifestyle changes wrought by the pandemic.
—Michael Tobin, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
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Plus, the money must be rolled over into the beneficiary’s Roth IRA.
—Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2023
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Then presumably the tax will no longer apply, and the surviving spouse beneficiaries may wish to decant or reform those trusts to eliminate some of the restrictions that may not have been desired but for the tax requirements.
—Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent social media posts, including the one that alerted Peterson to the change, have prompted an outcry from beneficiaries and their families who rely on the service.
—Bracey Harris, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
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