cui bono

[ kooi boh-noh; English kwee-boh-noh, kahy- ]

Latin.

for whose benefit?
for what use? of what good?

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De Merode has enlisted a team of 32 international lawyers to work pro bono on the case.
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By 8:45 on a recent Thursday, the 12th-floor pro bono room is packed.
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I have kept the paper still, frayed and yellow with age; but the fatal cui bono?
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He had adopted as his motto and watchword the fatal cui bono?
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It is the only probable conjecture on the cui bono of these arms that I can at present make.
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Two colossal lions bear the burden of the double canopies and were the work of Bono da Bisone.
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Juan Bono acknowledged that never in his life had he met with the kindness of father or mother but in the island of Trinidad.
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British Dictionary definitions for cui bono

cui bono

/ Latin (kwiː ˈbəʊnəʊ) /

for whose benefit? for what purpose?

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