as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable
all your begging will not avail you in the least
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Recent Examples of availed
Barack Obama also availed himself of caution, reluctance and NATO partners to use air power to subdue chaos on the ground in Libya.
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John Brummett, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Both men availed themselves of substitutes.
—Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Beth Bourne availed herself of the allotted 3 minutes of public comment to express her disagreement with school district’s middle school locker room policies and emphasized her point by stripping down to two-piece swimsuit.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
John Brummett, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Both men availed themselves of substitutes.
—Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Beth Bourne availed herself of the allotted 3 minutes of public comment to express her disagreement with school district’s middle school locker room policies and emphasized her point by stripping down to two-piece swimsuit.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for availed
benefited
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The city has unquestionably benefitted from some magic.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The company has benefited from a boom in artificial intelligence as a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, used in chipsets for AI data centers like those from Nvidia.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Availed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/availed. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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