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endow

[en-dou] / ɛnˈdaʊ /


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She believed, as Arendt never could have, in the judgment of history as “an objective suprahuman process” that, like God for believers, would remember even trivial human events and endow all experience with meaning.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 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

He comprehends it, being a man full grown, able to oversee the kind of house Zeus would endow with honor.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Director David Cromer, whose sensibility gravitates between stark and dark, endows the staging with macabre elegance.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2025

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

The 1994 tournament also gave birth to Major League Soccer, the largest first-division league in the world, and endowed a foundation that has funded grassroots soccer development for more than a generation.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

Or the meeting in that play between Welsh, Scottish and Irish captains, each endowed by Shakespeare with a distinctive accent?

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 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

Much of the picture is devoted to songs and dances, with the children trying to determine whether this ragtag minstrel is really endowed with supernatural abilities.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

I endowed that word “all” with special meaning, and pressed dresses and packed trunks in a delirium of anticipation.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.

From Salon Feb. 28, 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

And so her just having that strength and passion and vision and endowing me and my little sisters with that, that became the baseline for our lives.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 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




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