endowed
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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
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
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
And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
I was looked after by a male nurse named Rojas, a heavyset man with a round face, who always wore a dirty blue smock and was endowed with enormous kindness.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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