How to Use beneficence in a Sentence

beneficence

noun
  • Such beneficence could take years, though, or might never come.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Those with food were obliged to share with those lacking, not as beneficence but more as a tax.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Hence these remixes, which are, in the main, predatory moves passing as beneficence.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Only one of those managers, Ancelotti, left the club on his terms and with the broad beneficence of the fans.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The 39-year-old’s beneficence should, however, be kept in context.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 7 July 2024
  • Medical practice permits some pain on the pathway to beneficence.
    — Joel B. Zivot, STAT, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Now, the couple, accustomed to being on the giving end of beneficence, is getting something.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
  • But even with these human enhancements the Maya remained at the mercy of nature’s beneficence.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2018
  • But as the game goes on, the beneficence of your mission becomes increasingly uncertain.
    — Adrian Chen, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • But even with these human enhancements, the Maya remained at the mercy of nature’s beneficence.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2019
  • And Page's views on goodness, and corporate beneficence in particular, seem to have evolved along with his fortune.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 24 Mar. 2014
  • Outside the foundation, her personal beneficence was vast and eclectic.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • Calling this previously unknown substance a vitamin gave it a sheen of beneficence.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Calling this previously unknown substance a vitamin gave it a sheen of beneficence.
    — Christie Aschwanden, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Cue Sami's return to the house of horrors to convince his brother, with clear-sighted beneficence, to stop the cycle of violence.
    — Harry Windsor, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2017
  • Throughout the land, upstanding citizens beheld the court’s beneficence and rejoiced.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Whatever Musk does, the preservation of our digital cultural heritage should not have to rely on the beneficence of one man.
    — Brewster Kahle, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Had there been even a modicum of creativity and beneficence in the baseball offices abutting the Allegheny, the team could have had their cake and eaten it too.
    — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nonmaleficence is often paired with a principle of beneficence, a duty to benefit patients.
    — Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation, 23 June 2022
  • Blatz's beneficence could have been tempered by the fact that three of the brewery's biggest competitors — Pabst, Schlitz and Miller — also made bids.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The monarchy in Thailand sits atop a cosmic hierarchy that demands order and obedience and offers beneficence.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2020
  • What Facebook saw as beneficence, Indians saw as neocolonialism.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018
  • For her part, though, Jones has compared the creation of the monument to other federal policies that, while meant to express beneficence, had a profound adverse effect on her life.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Developers can't build an algorithm with empathy, beneficence, intuition and the art of listening.
    — Adam Saltman, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The beneficence of the cartels is the latest sign of their capacity to challenge and embarrass a Mexican government whose resources have been stretched thin by the crisis.
    — Fox News, 15 May 2020
  • Rarely noted is the longstanding Israeli beneficence toward Palestinians, when not under attack.
    — WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Etsy One of the marvels of the modern day gift market is the way that its journals, magnets, and coffee mugs swing wildly between smiling beneficence and saucy declarations of misanthropy.
    — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • British schoolchildren have long been taught comforting fairy tales about the beneficence of the largest empire in history, but recent historical scholarship is painting a quite different picture.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
  • In the power dynamic between patients and physicians, patients historically have not held authority but relied on the beneficence of their clinicians to ensure their needs are met.
    — Lisa I. Iezzoni, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Sondheim tells Larson that his work is actually pretty good, despite his doubters, and his beneficence hangs over the movie, held up as an example of a previous generation supporting the next.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021

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