1
as in to gift
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
a young performer endowed with a great singing voice
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2
as in to fund
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
a wealthy businessman who endowed several museums
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3
as in to finance
to provide money for
the program to bring the arts to inner-city youths is endowed by a grant from the federal government
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Recent Examples of endow
It’s gotten popular enough for Glen Fox, Anheuser-Busch endowed professor of malting and brewing sciences at the University of California, Davis, to add nonalcoholic beer to his teaching program this year.
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Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 8 June 2025
But what were his motivations for the sculptural cut that reduced the body by a third, literally disabling all of the fetish’s functions except for those of its primary feature, the design, thereby intensifying it, endowing it even with an imaginary, almost futuristic acceleration?
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The $1 million contribution, provided by the Bale family, established the hospital's Pediatric Interventional Radiology endowed chair.
—Keelin Fisher, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2025
The gift, made in November 2024, will endow two professorships within the Department of Neurology.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 8 June 2025
But what were his motivations for the sculptural cut that reduced the body by a third, literally disabling all of the fetish’s functions except for those of its primary feature, the design, thereby intensifying it, endowing it even with an imaginary, almost futuristic acceleration?
—Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
The $1 million contribution, provided by the Bale family, established the hospital's Pediatric Interventional Radiology endowed chair.
—Keelin Fisher, Arkansas Online, 24 June 2025
The gift, made in November 2024, will endow two professorships within the Department of Neurology.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for endow
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His wife, Brittany Mahomes, is also from Texas and played soccer at the University of Texas at Tyler. Patrick and Brittany, and Patrick’s brother, Jackson, recently gifted Randi a new home in Texas.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 July 2025
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At 12, my artistic godfather, Fito Ledesma, gifted me an accordion.—
DAVID BURKE,
Miami Herald,
9 July 2025
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The council has set aside $150,000 to fund food distributions and connect residents with legal aid, also approving a requirement that federal agents identify themselves to police when asked.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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It is funded by payroll taxes and will continue to provide pay checks.—
Nora Duncan,
Hartford Courant,
11 July 2025
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The new law also does away with Grad PLUS loans, which help people finance higher education degrees.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
11 July 2025
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Entrepreneurs, business owners and organizational leaders make decisions every day about which banks to use, which funds to invest in and how supply chains are financed.—
Ben Jealous,
Rolling Stone,
10 July 2025
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Helping CMOs Aggregate, Organize and Monetize Knowledge In Marketing Actions, Conversations and Decisions Digital marketing has blessed modern marketers with a wealth of customer engagement data.—
Stephen Diorio,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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God bless the people who are saying these things against us.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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Not long before the end, the daring writer-director introduces an idea that should have been established from the jump: As a child, Seti struggled with a speech impediment.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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Two of the victims have been identified in a GoFundMe that has been established, but the Statesman will not publish the four victims’ names until the coroner releases their identities. CORRECTION: The Facebook postings about Benjamin Naylor were made by his three daughters and his ex-wife.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
11 July 2025
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Agency funds did much more than subsidize independent media.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
11 July 2025
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Lawmakers refused to help A year ago, Texas lawmakers rejected a bill to establish a statewide emergency response plan and subsidize protection for rural jurisdictions like Kerr County.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 July 2025
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In this way, musicians are uniquely equipped for reinvention.—
Victoria Chynoweth,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2025
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In other words, he was thrust into a challenging role that he was no longer equipped to handle.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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“Endow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endow. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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