blessing

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advantage and disadvantage
ace
an ace up your sleeveidiom
attraction
be well in thereidiom
be/stay/keep one jump aheadidiom
have something on your sideidiom
have the inside trackidiom
have the odds/cards stacked against youidiom
head start
hold all the cardsidiom
leg
lock
milk
profit from something
racing start
saving grace
scent bloodidiom
secret weapon
stick
the best of both worldsidiom

boon | American Dictionary

boon
noun[ C ]
us/bun/
something good or very helpful:
Spring rains are a boon to local farmers.

Examples of boon

boon
This chapter was a boon to my students in an advanced course in linguistic anthropology.
This, of course, was a boon to scholars emerging from departments of philosophy, religion, and theology.
Invariably, they see a strong economy as a boon for an incumbent's re-election hopes and a weak economy as a curse on them.
However, 12 out of the 32 speakers did not perceive planning opportunity as a boon.
That immunity, needless to add, has been a boon for criminal activity.
Increases in revenue sharing through time were thus a real boon to the governors on the receiving end of these transfers.
The errata page, though extensive and a real boon, is not exhaustive.
This feature is a boon to researchers delving into the history of meteorites and meteoritics.
Though a person must, of course, choose to use a manual, the manual's user is arguably a mere recipient of any boon these letters provide.
Not needing personal possessions was a boon to women as well as men, the old as well as the young.
Besides their use in performance, the editions are a great boon to those wishing to analyse the music.
This development would be a boon for bioethics, which has remained basically steadfast to its originative constituency - left-oriented, big government liberalism.
The extended time period of a half-term project is a real boon here.
Not humidity only, but readily selectable humidity, is the greatest boon brought by this season.
These programs, though a boon for busy clinicians, raise few significant ethical and legal issues.
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