benefiting

verb

variants also benefitting
present participle of benefit
as in helping
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 benefiting Space is benefiting from the growing number of launches each year. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026 On Wall Street, stocks benefiting from the boom around artificial-intelligence technology helped lead the way. — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 The show will showcase more than 200 cars and motorcycles, a performance by the local band Dog Collar and food for sale, with proceeds benefiting the charities. — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 Cost is an issue that may prevent more teens from benefiting from the game. — Melissa May, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 Other readers advocated for programs benefiting the environment, arts and culture, and community improvement and workforce development, including job training programs. — Chris Fusco, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026 Hansen’s true crime streaming channel is now benefiting from the film’s release. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026 Each event will allocate a portion of ticket sales to its benefiting organization as well as offer exclusive packages through online auctions leading up to the events. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026 Each event will allocate a portion of ticket sales to benefiting organizations as well as offer exclusive packages through online auctions leading up to the events. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for benefiting
  1. helping
  2. profiting
  3. availing
  4. aiding
Verb
  • Guests are welcome to contribute to the fun by helping forage for ingredients.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Cho Eun-hee | South Korea Chef and culinary educator Cho Eun-hee is helping to transform Korean food from a pop-culture fad to global fine dining.
    — Ashleigh Nghiem, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of helping
Verb
  • These platforms are colonizing existing speculative spaces—like election results and sporting outcomes—while profiting from areas of asymmetrical knowledge that were previously not possible to monetize.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy.
    — Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of profiting
Verb
  • The No campaign is arguing that language that opens the door to data center developers availing themselves of the streamlined CEQA system.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Too many developers right now are taking the position that their primary obligation is to pay for connecting their projects to the existing grid and then availing themselves of existing power supplies.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
Definition of availing
Verb
  • The facility — slated to be 110,000,000 square feet — will be where Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, which SpaceX acquired ahead of the IPO, manufacture chips for computing, aiding both SpaceX and Tesla.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
  • For the latter, this is vital to enable the safe passage of ships through shipping lanes, into and out of ports, all the while preventing collisions and aiding activities like search and rescue.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of aiding

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