endowing

Example Sentences

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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

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

Similarly, Ibargüen showed that he was not bound to the past when he steered Knight away from endowing journalism professorships at universities.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

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