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The 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. 9, 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

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

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

"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

Michael Billington of The Guardian, reviewing her there, wrote, “Carlin Glynn endows the madam with the refined good breeding and slight romantic forlornness of the head of a very classy, fee-paying American girls’ school.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 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

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

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

He wrote magnificently for actors, endowing them with powers of speech that surpass the capacities of most mere mortals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

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

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