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also benefitted
as in helped
to provide with something useful or desirable
his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience
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Recent Examples of benefited
Each of those institutions has benefitted from major grants this year.
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Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Working from home has been a common practice since 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and those who benefited from it the most were probably pets and their owners, who got to spend lots of extra time together throughout the day.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The Yankees were looking to improve a starting rotation that went 65-48 in 2024 but benefitted tremendously from a lineup that included Juan Soto and American League MVP Aaron Judge.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Third on the list was Australia, reporting growth of just over half a billion dollars, meaning majority-English speaking countries benefitted the most from the Eras Tour.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The desire for positive press also crops up in the third and final allegation, where the PM stands accused of promoting regulations that benefited media moguls in exchange for favorable news coverage on popular news site Walla, owned by The Jerusalem Post.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Loyola University Maryland has also benefited from the family's fortune, and a pool at Loyola's Fitness & Aquatic Center bears the Mangione name.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The federal government incentivized a lot of solar investment through the IRA tax credits, but many of those projects that benefited are already in the pipeline.
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
And on either end of the spectrum, both small-scale individual rooftop solar panels and large-scale utility solar arrays have benefited from incentives to increase solar, including tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Working from home has been a common practice since 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and those who benefited from it the most were probably pets and their owners, who got to spend lots of extra time together throughout the day.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
The Yankees were looking to improve a starting rotation that went 65-48 in 2024 but benefitted tremendously from a lineup that included Juan Soto and American League MVP Aaron Judge.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Third on the list was Australia, reporting growth of just over half a billion dollars, meaning majority-English speaking countries benefitted the most from the Eras Tour.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The desire for positive press also crops up in the third and final allegation, where the PM stands accused of promoting regulations that benefited media moguls in exchange for favorable news coverage on popular news site Walla, owned by The Jerusalem Post.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Loyola University Maryland has also benefited from the family's fortune, and a pool at Loyola's Fitness & Aquatic Center bears the Mangione name.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The federal government incentivized a lot of solar investment through the IRA tax credits, but many of those projects that benefited are already in the pipeline.
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
And on either end of the spectrum, both small-scale individual rooftop solar panels and large-scale utility solar arrays have benefited from incentives to increase solar, including tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
—Sarah Sax, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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