bestows (on or upon)

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

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  • The program provides as much as $298 monthly for a single person to $1,756 for a family of eight.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The company has previously said that producing in the Asian nation provides a 25-percent cost advantage when stacked against its production efforts in the Central America region.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • The monkeys were housed at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in New Orleans, which supplies primates to scientific research organizations.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Sacramento Food Bank supplies about 200 hunger relief partners across the county.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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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 6 Nov. 2025.

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