do well by (someone)

idiom

: to treat (someone) well

The company did well by me when I retired.

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And, assuming this team runs more, backs should do well by following in Wright's wake. —Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023

Hopefully there will be others like Mallory around who can recognize their talents and still do well by doing good. —Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022

This presents the GOP with an opportunity to do well by doing good. —Alexander William Salter, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022

Today’s business leaders could do well by the same advice. —Esther Choy, Forbes, 26 June 2022

Some companies, at least, continue to do well by doing right by their customers and their employees. —Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2022

But my reading of the historical record suggests groups do well by mingling with everybody else while keeping some of their own distinct identities and cultures. —David Brooks, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021

Biden wants to show how the federal government can do well by its people. —Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 28 June 2021

The press at large didn’t do well by Wisconsin and its contentious voter ID law in 2016. —Leslie Savan, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2020

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