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David A. Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft and Workday, is giving $371.5 million to Cornell University, largely to endow the Ivy League school’s engineering college, which will be named after him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Entry wall text — there is no catalog — says it “explores how human experience is embedded in the land, presenting the work of artists who endow it with meaning.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

Kaufman also donated an undisclosed sum to create and endow the USC Kaufman School of Dance, and to build its home, the Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

For breeders to make use of that diversity, however, they need to know which landraces could endow wheat with potentially desirable traits.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2024

“With this varvel,” the Wart heard, “I thee endow... love, honour and obey... till jess us do part.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

"Mixed selectivity is the property that endows us with our flexibility, cognitive capacity, and ability to be creative. It is the secret to maximizing computational power which is essentially the underpinnings of intelligence."

From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024

On the one hand, the baleen whales' unusual larynx endows them with a remarkable ability.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

The water warms the air above the sea surface, which endows passing storms with more energy and can allow them to generate fiercer winds.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

Michael Billington of The Guardian, reviewing her there, wrote, “Carlin Glynn endows the madam with the refined good breeding and slight romantic forlornness of the head of a very classy, fee-paying American girls’ school.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

The selective highlighting endows the lifesize figure of David and the gruesome head with a startling presence.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

The idea that anyone can suddenly be endowed with superhuman specialness simply by being in the right place at the right time is a little like daydreaming about winning the lottery.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

But they note in some districts the percentage of foreign owners already exceeds the 15 percent limit, particularly in "territories endowed with water and mineral resources, or logistical advantages," such as ports.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

That practice must end, because it is a "complete devaluation of the resource that is so fortunately endowed in places like Nigeria and other countries," he told BBC Focus on Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Those endowed with the talents needed to become surgeons or pilots or military leaders should have the opportunity to develop these skills, and their achievements should be rewarded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

And the third was always special, exalted, endowed with mystical gifts.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

I am not sure endowing Sonny with a social conscience, presumably intended to point up the material’s contemporary relevance, is an improvement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He wrote magnificently for actors, endowing them with powers of speech that surpass the capacities of most mere mortals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

Following the surgery, Jane had announced that as a gesture of gratitude, her family would be endowing a chair for the doctor who’d performed her surgery at the university hospital where she worked.

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2025

Mercy, it says, “is the act of withholding deserved punishment, while grace is the act of endowing unmerited favor.”

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

This difference in their points of view did not prevent Copley from endowing Revere’s portrait with an ingenious significance and penetrating characterization.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson