bestow
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We are also a species insufficiently grateful, it seems, for the favors flowers bestow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Australians demand success against Australia to bestow respect upon an opposing player.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
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
“How can I lose men I do not have? I had hoped to bestow Winterfell on a northman, you may recall. A son of Eddard Stark. He threw my offer in my face.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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