as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profited
Moore of course personally profited by charging fees to implement this deal.
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Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Billionaire investor Jim Chanos, who predicted and profited from the collapse of Enron, warned financial fraud is already on the rise as a result of the AI boom.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Puerto Rico served as an entry point to the Americas for Spanish colonizers, who, as early as the 16th century, profited off sugarcane and tobacco grown there.
—Rebecca L. Rhoades, Saveur, 20 Aug. 2025
As hospital employees faced empty promises and deteriorating conditions, investors profited.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2025
Frank Vaisvilas explains how all this connects back to the Morrill Act, which established land-grant universities like Cornell and the University of Wisconsin that profited from lands taken from Indigenous nations.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
There’ve been so many people who've profited off drag queens, but don’t do drag.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Intrepid traders profited by transporting essential goods.
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Other brands also profited from Swift’s appearances outside the red carpet in 2024.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Billionaire investor Jim Chanos, who predicted and profited from the collapse of Enron, warned financial fraud is already on the rise as a result of the AI boom.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Puerto Rico served as an entry point to the Americas for Spanish colonizers, who, as early as the 16th century, profited off sugarcane and tobacco grown there.
—Rebecca L. Rhoades, Saveur, 20 Aug. 2025
As hospital employees faced empty promises and deteriorating conditions, investors profited.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2025
Frank Vaisvilas explains how all this connects back to the Morrill Act, which established land-grant universities like Cornell and the University of Wisconsin that profited from lands taken from Indigenous nations.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
There’ve been so many people who've profited off drag queens, but don’t do drag.
—EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Intrepid traders profited by transporting essential goods.
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Other brands also profited from Swift’s appearances outside the red carpet in 2024.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profited
benefited
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All of us have in some way benefitted from the policy’s protections, whether through recreation, clean drinking water or otherwise.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Electricity prices for industrial users ran at roughly half those for European competitors, and American households and businesses benefited from the United States’ vast energy resources.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Sep. 2025
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