endowed

past tense of endow

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of endowed The show was considered an outlier in its generally sympathetic take on Hill and his conservative views, as well as in terms of the agency with which the show’s creators endowed its working- and middle-class characters. Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026 Someone who might have the answers is fan-favorite franchise staple Elise (Lin Shaye), a medium who commutes between both worlds, here via the body of a tattoo artist (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) endowed with paranormal gifts. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026 When a Columbus nursing home that served aging African Americans was sold, a resulting gift endowed the Isabelle Ridgway Foundation, a supporting organization of the Columbus Foundation. Laura MacDonald, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals. Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026 For professors who studied literary themes and metaphors for a living, theory endowed their scholarship with the armature of a larger purpose, transforming textual analysis into jargony skirmishes in a crusade for social justice. Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 So does the king’s loyal swineherd, Eumaeus (John Leguizamo), who, in this telling, has gone blind and is thus endowed with near-Tiresian powers of perception. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 Official liberalism had long been almost inextricably identified with a picture of man as perfectible, as endowed with sufficient wisdom and selflessness to endure power and to use it infallibly for the general good. David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 He is endowed with the gift of making his characters seem not only credible but desirable, approachable, and human, thanks to his undeniable charm. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endowed
Verb
  • Chetal gifted a Lamborghini to his parents and hid a duffel bag filled with $500,000 in cash in their laundry machine.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Underwood went 12-of-22 passing for 170 yards and gifted Western Michigan 3 points at the end of the first half.
    Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The grants are primarily funded through the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation with additional dollars from other donors and foundation’s discretionary funding, according to the organization.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Follower donations and a sponsorship from Sticker Savages helped keep the project funded.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Movies developed and financed outside of the major studios and streamers have a massive hill to climb.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Paramount is distributing the film, which was made and financed by Hammerstone.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Charlotte is blessed with a bounty of bakeries stocking fresh cakes, cupcakes, croissants and other treats to soothe your sweet tooth.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Not for nothing has White Barn Inn been blessed with just about every hospitality and dining award possible—from the endless applause of regional magazines and AAA five diamond ratings to a spot on Traveler's Gold List.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Many organizations still default to degree requirements because they’re established and easy to understand.
    Raghu Krishnaiah, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • To help support Anthropic and OpenAI fund their deployments, Broadcom established a special purpose vehicle (SPV) platform in partnership with Apollo and Blackstone to facilitate more than 20 GW of compute infrastructure by the end of 2028.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Under Gavi’s cofinancing model, low- and middle-income countries’ initial vaccine purchases are subsidized by contributions from high-income countries and other investors.
    Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Penguin Random House, largest seller of books, and most eager to sell them best, testified in court that the sales of only 4 percent of its books effectively subsidized the rest.
    M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Lockheed Martin installed it aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble, making the vessel the first US destroyer equipped with a high-energy laser.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Bathrooms are equipped with rain showers, motion-sensing Toto toilets, and soaking tubs.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Endowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endowed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2026.

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