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Two of the sitting justices played high-school football, and they must know that the strain of sport leads teenage boys to endow ordinary routine with the power of superstition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

The effectiveness of the suffragist and temperance movements would endow American women with more power than they had ever known.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Jinn endows Jung with hidden dimensions of pain and regret.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

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 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

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

As her words fell upon my new ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere within me.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

As the bone-in chicken thighs roast, the fat from the skin renders, endowing the buttered coating with a deep and delightful crunch.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023

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