endow
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The aim is to endow Claude with a sense of morality—a digital soul that guides the millions of conversations it has with people every week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
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
"We show that we can use this fluid to endow intelligence into a simple robot," said Djellouli.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
It reminds us that Puccini, who was always searching to endow his scores with “local color,” didn’t just compose exotic-seeming, faux-Asian tunes for his operas, but also sought out actual Asian examples.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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The production can’t hide the show’s meretricious heart, but like the song that Scherzinger endows with Puccini-esque splendor, Lloyd has discovered “new ways to dream” Webber’s musical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
In 2013 Miller teamed up with two co-authors of the new paper, Mattia Rigotti of IBM Research and Stefano Fusi of Columbia University, to show how mixed selectivity endows the brain with powerful computational flexibility.
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
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
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It is far too soon to say what ways the fabulous new Bowl sound system, which happens to be AI endowed, might become friend and/or foe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
A living being is also endowed with theoretical knowledge—as in the Greek term theorein, meaning to behold, receive and contemplate ultimate reality as beauty, gift and mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
It’s about how you take and use what you’re endowed with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
We have no heirs and plan to leave our assets to an endowed scholarship at my alma mater, plus a smaller gift to a local university program.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
The only real sense of movement came from the crowds of fairgoers who bustled through the streets, endowing it with the vigor and lively mood I associated with village market days.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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