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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

Kaufman also donated an undisclosed sum to create and endow the USC Kaufman School of Dance, and to build its home, the Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Many people know fish sauce from Asian cuisines, where it is used to endow dishes with umami.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

"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

In a letter to the Brown community, university chancellor Brian Moynihan praised Paxson for overseeing the fundraising for about 150 endowed professorships and expanded access to student aid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

They were not wholly of the American aristocracy but tolerably close, with connections and affluence that endowed Alfred with upper-class tastes and bearing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Amid the uproar over his decision came letters from Upton Sinclair urging Garland to put the money to good use by endowing a fund for the good of mankind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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

The Higgs boson may or may not actually exist; it was invented simply as a way of endowing particles with mass.

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