How to Use beneficiary in a Sentence

beneficiary

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  • The college was a beneficiary of the private grant.
  • After his passing, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie, was named the sole beneficiary of the estate.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 24 June 2022
  • Georgia could be the most likely beneficiary of Saban’s retirement.
    — John Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • With Russia threatening to curtail its exports, China could be a big beneficiary.
    — Anna Cooban and Uliana Pavlova, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • My mother, born in 1930 in the Jim Crow South, was indeed a beneficiary of this movement's work.
    — Omisade Burney-Scott, Good Housekeeping, 8 July 2022
  • Gordon became the principal beneficiary of Pleiades, which the lawsuit says his daughters will inherit after his death.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • Mack had previously accused her mother of squandering a $1.56 million trust fund, of which Mack was the sole beneficiary.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022
  • At the same time, the number of beneficiaries rose by 22 percent over the past decade.
    — Mark Miller, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Through six games, Mike Hall Jr. seems to be the biggest beneficiary of this, with a team-high 4.5 sacks.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Nvidia has been the biggest beneficiary of the AI boom.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • While Edey didn't have his usual night on the glass, Furst was the beneficiary.
    — Sam King, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The lower the price is, the more that the Medicare program and many Medicare beneficiaries spend.
    — ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Both pleaded not guilty in July 2021 to the tax scheme, of which the CFO was the biggest beneficiary.
    — Fortune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Nvidia has been one of the main beneficiaries of the AI boom, seeing its sales surge on demand for chips.
    — Carly Wanna, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • Already, the country is the seventh top exporter of goods to the US and a beneficiary of the trade war with China.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
  • And the state can’t put a claim on it if there is a co-owner who outlives the Medi-Cal beneficiary.
    — Bernard J. Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Clyde Tolson was the chief beneficiary of Hoover’s will and received the flag that had been placed on his coffin.
    — Michael Kazin, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • And, at least for the moment, Colorado is the beneficiary.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, he was married, so his wife was named as beneficiary.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
  • Tech and other high-growth stocks are seen as some of the biggest beneficiaries if the Fed eases off rate hikes.
    — Joe McDonald, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • The beneficiary was his son who, probably at the time, was 3 or 4 years old.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Many actors and writers have no doubt been lucky enough to be beneficiaries of some of these strategies in the short term.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Medicare beneficiaries would have to pay based on the net price, rather than the list price, under the new proposal.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But the lack of a payment this month could still come as a rude surprise to some beneficiaries who weren't prepared for or aware of the shift in payment dates.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Nvidia - the dominant player in the GPU space - has been the biggest beneficiary of the trend thus far, with its stock up almost 3.5x this year.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Her attorney is sharp and asks for copies of any trusts that daughter may be a beneficiary of.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Airbnb has been a major beneficiary of the work and lifestyle changes wrought by the pandemic.
    — Michael Tobin, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Plus, the money must be rolled over into the beneficiary’s Roth IRA.
    — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The grain there is flourishing, the beneficiary of a late-season shift from dry to drenching.
    — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • For true believers in the cult of social justice, even Mangum’s confession will not disabuse them of their belief that those who are born into the wrong identities are the illegitimate beneficiaries of generational theft.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024

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