bestows (on or upon)

verb

present tense third-person singular of bestow (on or upon)
as in confers (on)

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  1. provides
  2. supplies
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  • Five original murals by Naples artist Janine Wesselmann celebrate the city's social traditions, while a baby grand piano provides the soundtrack most evenings beneath gilded ceilings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform, launched on Monday, provides a containment system that only allows access to things an agent needs to do its job.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
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  • As the company explains, ANYbotics supplies the autonomous mobile robot, LEGIC provides the secure digital credential technology, and dormakaba handles access management and door automation.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The data may tell most of the story, but the person often supplies the rest.
    — Sunil Padiyar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
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“Bestows (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestows%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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