benefited

variants also benefitted
past tense of benefit
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 The Tigers also benefitted from some poor punts from Troy’s Evan Crenshaw. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026 Browne has benefited from the addition of two premier slot receivers in Florida Atlantic transfer Asaad Waseem and Iowa State transfer Xavier Townsend. — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 All three benefited from buzz around the country’s 250th birthday, with Denver’s also getting an assist from the World Cup. — Gary Trust, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2026 These communities have both benefited from the influx of people and struggled to integrate their new arrivals. — CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 The vote was largely along party lines, with Democrats voicing their concerns that public officials have benefited from their crypto ventures. — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026 The defense would have benefitted from calling a specialist in postpartum mood disorders to explain how easily psychotic symptoms can be missed in high-functioning new mothers. — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026 Of course, the publicity benefited the show more than Meghan, if anything. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Sep. 2026 That the Wrexham pair quickly got on with their jobs after such a frank exchange of views said everything about the character of a squad that has now benefited from more than £70m investment since winning promotion from League One last year. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
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  • Since the vehicle was too old for power-steering, diamond-hard triceps helped, too.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The firm has worked on major construction projects and has helped build about a dozen nuclear reactors around the world.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
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  • The ‘Noles were aided by three penalties on Mainland, two of the 15-yard variety, to get the ball to the 6-yard line.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But clear weather and relatively light winds aided air tankers, which dropped water on hot spots throughout Thursday, while hand crews and bulldozers strengthened fire lines around the fire.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Benefited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benefited. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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