bestow
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“We were providing them with data they thought was valuable that they want to replicate on their own using the best practices we could bestow on them,” Abramson said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
We are also a species insufficiently grateful, it seems, for the favors flowers bestow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Twenty-one percent of managers say Tesla is the market’s most richly valued stock, while 13% bestow the “honor” on Nvidia.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
The president also told reporters that he’d always wanted to be honored by the Kennedy Center, joking that he muscled his way into the institution to bestow the award on himself.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2025
He’d known it from the moment the duel started, and began sweating when she had the opportunity to bestow a winning blow and failed to deliver it.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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