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dowry

noun

Definition of dowry

as in dower

money or property that a wife or wife's family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures

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Recent Examples of dowry The Childhood Home, for these friends, is a church of its own, if not a birthplace as such then a birthright, the residence of the mother but the dowry of the daughter. — Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 Without a dowry and—ipso facto—without suitors. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 May 2026 Each couple receives a set of items worth about $1,000 that would traditionally be given by the bride’s family as part of dowry. — Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026 Viewers learned that one of the characters in the Netflix series has a dowry of 18,000 pounds. — Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dowry

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Over the past five years, the endowment has gone up by about $7 million.

— Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Lawrence, who has represented Dior since 2012, will present the grand prize, which comes with a cash endowment of 400,000 euros and mentorship by the French luxury conglomerate’s teams.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

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Palestinians possess no natural gift for grief and there is nothing beautiful about enduring destruction and death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
The children were learning how to make gift bags and perfume, a free workshop that offered them a brief respite from Cuba's realities.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026

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As some selectors are being eliminated so is the traditional system of presentation.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
The road to the end of the very long Emmy season takes place over most of your Labor Day holiday weekend with the two-night presentation of what were formerly called the Creative Arts Emmy Awards but now are simply being called the Emmy Awards.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of presentation

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The criticism has been compounded due to the Mormon requirement that members donate 10% of their income to the church as a tithe, according to the Mormon Church’s website.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 1 Sep. 2026
Concerns over donations The dispute centers on tithes, donations in which church members give 10% of their income to the organization.

— Giles Hudson, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026

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