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Askell’s 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. 13, 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

Unlike the novelists I avidly read in my formative years, these playwrights invited actors to endow their words with body and voice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

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

According to Jamie Lincoln Kitman, writing in The Nation in 2000, Ethyl executives allegedly offered to endow a chair at Caltech "if Patterson was sent packing."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The superb lighting designer Jared A. Sayeg, who incidentally worked on Alan Mandell’s 2016 production of “Endgame” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, endows the scenic picture with a painterly aura.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

"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

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

Anyway, she had not gone through male puberty, which theoretically might have endowed her with a competitive advantage, because she had been taking puberty blockers and female hormones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched, and I believe that his early losses endowed him with great humanity and sympathy.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

She’s more grounded than Lenk, who leaned into Bobbie’s sphinx-like nature, endowing the character with a Mona Lisa smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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