How to Use goodwill in a Sentence

goodwill

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  • They allowed him to keep the extra money as a gesture of goodwill.
  • She has goodwill toward all her coworkers.
  • The result was a ton of interest in the show and lots of goodwill from subscribers.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Killer Mike thanked his fans for their goodwill messages.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Any hopes for equality would be up to the goodwill of rich countries.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Oh, so this goodwill gift, this gift from Japan literally went up in flames for the world to see.
    — Hilda Gitchell, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But he has been met, by and large, with an outpouring of goodwill, from colleagues and the public alike.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 20 July 2023
  • But with the help of researchers and the goodwill of governments around the world as well as the art world, these challenges can once again be overcome.
    — Howard N. Spiegler, Fortune Europe, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Nick Foles is the subject of a punk song How much goodwill does Foles have in Philadelphia?
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Walk to your co-worker’s desk to ask them a question – and why not bring them a latte too, as a goodwill gesture?
    — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Thank you for all of the Happy Birthday wishes and heartfelt goodwill!
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
  • This is about creating a network of goodwill that goes both ways.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Now he is overcome by the tremendous outpouring of goodwill since news got out about the looting.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But, in the 1990s, China was still in the early phases of its ascent and depended on U.S. goodwill.
    — Thomas Graham, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2023
  • His catalog, one of the most beloved among rappers of the last decade, has generated a whole lot of goodwill.
    — Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • And Old Navy is a massive $9 billion brand with a big reservoir of goodwill from consumers to tap into.
    — Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • Doubts about the regime and its legitimacy and its goodwill?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 June 2023
  • And doing so still relies on the goodwill of the platforms used to generate the deepfake audio.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Those who come to work ready to be part of the team likely will advance faster and engender trust and goodwill with their bosses and colleagues.
    — Michelle Lyng, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But Licht quickly squandered much of that goodwill through a series of blunders, many of his own making.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • Janet Yellen is the second Cabinet secretary to make a goodwill mission to Beijing in the last few weeks.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • These three weeks have burned up years of goodwill, trust and community building.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The goodwill that generates goes only so far, and so far Hawaii has struggled greatly.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In such cases, the act of splitting the difference can be seen as a gesture of goodwill and a means to reach an equitable outcome.
    — Kwame Christian, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Ukraine won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest this past May, amid a flood of goodwill extended toward the country in light of the war.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Anymore Over the subsequent decades, the United States seemed to fritter away both the goodwill needed to support such efforts and the means to carry them out.
    — Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Reports emerged last Friday that the kingdom was prepared to raise oil output in the event of high prices as a sign of goodwill toward Washington.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Yet, governments must be careful not to squander public goodwill, as the war in Ukraine grinds into its eighth month.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Yet for all of the follies of his predecessor, Harris has quite the head start in the goodwill department with Commanders fans.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • Now, all that goodwill is being leveraged to bring attention to her series.
    — Eric Francisco, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023

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