as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profited
Arguments can be made that NIL has put the final nail in the coffin to eliminate amateurism in college sports, but truthfully, amateurism in college sports died some time ago as the NCAA, institutions and media profited off the athletes.
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Eddie Edwards Jr, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
Maduro facilitated, enabled, and profited from flooding the United States with drugs that injured and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
The court ruled Soros illegally profited from shares in a bank, Societe Generale, in the 1980s.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Hopkins, a program planner with the county’s Department of Human Assistance, allegedly profited from the food program while approving invoices for it.
—Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Luke was the sole owner of Four Corners and personally profited from the reimbursement scheme, authorities said.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
Kennedy has profited financially from waging vaccine-injury lawsuits against Merck, the manufacturer of the Gardasil HPV vaccine.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC news, 2 Dec. 2025
State regimes profited from the arts in noneconomic ways as well.
—Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Some want punishments for companies that profited from vaccine and mask requirements during the pandemic.
—Ali Swenson, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Eddie Edwards Jr, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
Maduro facilitated, enabled, and profited from flooding the United States with drugs that injured and killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
—Briauna Brown, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
The court ruled Soros illegally profited from shares in a bank, Societe Generale, in the 1980s.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
Hopkins, a program planner with the county’s Department of Human Assistance, allegedly profited from the food program while approving invoices for it.
—Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 12 Dec. 2025
Luke was the sole owner of Four Corners and personally profited from the reimbursement scheme, authorities said.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
Kennedy has profited financially from waging vaccine-injury lawsuits against Merck, the manufacturer of the Gardasil HPV vaccine.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC news, 2 Dec. 2025
State regimes profited from the arts in noneconomic ways as well.
—Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Some want punishments for companies that profited from vaccine and mask requirements during the pandemic.
—Ali Swenson, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profited
benefited
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For now, all that can be said for certain, judging by the latest implosion in his current employers West Ham’s fast-deteriorating season, is that nobody has benefited from his falling-out with Edu and the sequence of events that brought about Nuno’s exit from the City Ground.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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And this new college football world — where players are free agents every year — has dramatically benefitted Miami because of the Canes’ knack for luring top players (Cam Ward, Carson Beck, many others) and their financial wherewithal to offer them competitive NIL deals.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Profited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profited. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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