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endowment

[en-dou-muhnt] / ɛnˈdaʊ mənt /




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The tribe also created an endowment, the Permanent Fund, to support the tribal government and provide services to members.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Even Harvard’s endowment was revealed to hold $2.2 billion in SpaceX shares as of the end of the second quarter.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Many Church of England clergy independently owned slaves, and a recent report by the Church's endowment fund reported the institution made large investments in the slave trade from which it made huge sums of money.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Their costs are embedded in tuition and fees, endowment income, donor support and government funding.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Baker & Inglis, with an impressive physical plant but a small endowment, wasn’t averse to increasing enrollment.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The wealthiest universities can offset tuition costs with large endowments, making many of them more affordable than smaller, lesser-known colleges with fewer resources.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The percentage of schools drawing down endowments at 15% tripled to 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments in 2025, up from 131 in 2021, according to estimates from Perspective Data Science, a higher-education financial consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

The moves signal a more aggressive effort by Gulf governments to generate returns from their natural-resource endowments, the ratings agency says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

His father was a successful insurance executive, so life was always comfortable, and Edwin enjoyed a wealth of physical endowments, too.

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




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