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Recent Examples of eleemosynary Grace LeBay plays a precocious teenage granddaughter, Echo, who is a National Spelling Bee champ, winning with the word eleemosynary, from where the play gets its title. Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 5 Aug. 2017
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Adjective
  • Art Environments The Kohler Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Kohler Co., a global manufacturing giant headquartered in Kohler, WI.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • For estate planners, CPAs, and financial advisors, the key takeaway is that tax tools should serve philanthropic intent, not drive it.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Buckingham, on her part, just wants to know the whereabouts of Rak and to go forward with other charitable efforts.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
  • The charitable event, which launched in 2006 as an offshoot of the 24 Hour Plays project, has strict rules.
    Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 30 June 2025

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“Eleemosynary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eleemosynary. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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