endow
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But the release of an open-weight model at the level of today’s frontier AIs would irreversibly endow bad actors everywhere with capabilities the world isn’t ready for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
This is why they made no effort to prepare the child for life, since the stars had already conspired to endow her with so many gifts.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Director David Cromer, whose sensibility gravitates between stark and dark, endows the staging with macabre elegance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
"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
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
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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
Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 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
And so her just having that strength and passion and vision and endowing me and my little sisters with that, that became the baseline for our lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
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