as in benefiting
to provide with something useful or desirable
all your begging will not avail you in the least
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for availing
Verb
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Buchanan runs onto the pass, benefitting from the distance between him and left back Max Arfsten to collect it in space.—
Jeff Rueter,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025 -
Between 1986 and 2016, Young held an annual benefit concert benefiting the Bridge School.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This combination of experience—specifically, that diversity of history and background—is beneficial for treating the broad range of patients who require health care.—
Adia Harvey Wingfield,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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While a nuisance, twig ants may be beneficial by feeding on other insects and fungal spores.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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So, if the forecasts are not helpful, what does the data say about the Fed’s current policy stance?—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Tennessee previously participated in the program, and advocates and Tennessee families told The Tennessean in December the program was very helpful in supplementing household budgets when kids are out of school.—
Vivian Jones,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Ultimately, though, success will be measured not by how much money companies and countries invest and earn but how all this AI is used and what protections will be enacted to ensure that its myriad uses are constructive rather than destructive.—
Anand Rao,
Fortune,
16 Aug. 2025
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The expansion, funded in part by a private donor, allows for more capacity in the space and includes a new constructive storage room for the archives and a new digital processing room for archivists, according to a news release.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
The Courier-Journal,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s also reason to think that in the Southeast, as people abandoned less profitable farms during the 20th century and forests regrew, that too muted warming.—
Chris Mooney,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2025
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But the Trump administration is jettisoning this profitable and steady business model in favor of one that reinforces the opposite cycle.—
Adam S. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Availing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/availing. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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