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    Then without saying a word, he rose from his chair, exited the office, and embraced this boon companion whom he had not seen in eight long years.  (source)
    boon = cherished
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    Somehow toys scattered throughout the house and toilets that the little ones had forgotten to flush are not considered a marketing boon.  (source)
    boon = thing of great benefit
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    The more he thought about his response to the Whisperer, the more convinced he was that becoming a Messenger had been a bad development, a blow to their mission rather than a boon because he was too weak to handle it.  (source)
    boon = benefit
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    How, then, do you intend to earn these boons?†  (source)
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    My lady, I beg the boon of championing your cause.  (source)
    boon = favor
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    "As to that, your majesty," said Deirdre, "we expect no boons, but will take care of it ourselves upon our departure."†  (source)
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    The crossroads made for odd companions; dyers with black and purple hands shared a bench with rivermen reeking of fish, an ironsmith thick with muscle squeezed in beside a wizened old septon, hard-bitten sellswords and soft plump merchants swapped news like boon companions.  (source)
    boon = cherished
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    What greatest boon of boons could be conceived of by such a master among men?†  (source)
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    But it would be such a boon to our image if we could produce a really workable method for achieving permanent results outside the laboratory, if we could show the world that there is some tangible good coming out of it.  (source)
    boon = something that is of great benefit
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    We badgers thought very hard and decided to ask three boons.†  (source)
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    Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia.†  (source)
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    Of old my father true and brave Two boons to Queen Kaikeyí gave.†  (source)
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    Even so has Achilles flung aside all pity, and all that conscience which at once so greatly banes yet greatly boons him that will heed it.†  (source)
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    Even though Shirley Boon, with her big know-it-all smile, kind a irritate me.  (source)
    Boon = a name in this novel
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    Only the greatest hero could ask such a boon, Mars said.†  (source)
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    She told him of a young woman who had been granted a boon.†  (source)
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    His thinness was a boon to him then, the bones and muscles clearly distinguished beneath the skin.†  (source)
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    They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer.†  (source)
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    But we might take advantage of this unexpected boon and go somewhere," Dad says.†  (source)
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    But if the telephone was a boon, it was also a fresh risk—as was each added worker and connection.†  (source)
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    One day you my ace boon and the next day I don't know you.†  (source)
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    As champion, you may as of me any boon that you desire.†  (source)
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    The first boon has been that when the flu arrived on campus last week, we knew in minutes who brought it.†  (source)
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    Prince Edward Road, Kim Chuan, Boon Tat Street, Maxwell, Cuscaden.†  (source)
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    For a researcher, this is a remarkable boon.†  (source)
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    Ask me any boon you want and I shall grant it if it's within my power.†  (source)
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