endowed

past tense of endow

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Recent Examples of endowed Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs. John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 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 The 1994 tournament also gave birth to Major League Soccer, the largest first-division league in the world, and endowed a foundation that has funded grassroots soccer development for more than a generation. Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 When a satin skirt or silk scarf is valued primarily for the status endowed upon its wearer – rather than its functionality as clothing – products take on a mystical status. Eileen G'sell, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endowed
Verb
  • Brown gifted Woolard a watch, journal, and sweet treat per an Instagram reel of her wrapping the present.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • Ao Tanaka was guilty of the loose touch in the centre circle, which gifted possession to Davis Keillor-Dunn for Wrexham’s counter and Smith’s winner.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 26 July 2026
Verb
  • Politicians and other proponents of the lab-leak theory have issued fresh calls to punish Fauci, 85, and scientists his institute funded.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • In Austin, the ARPA funded eviction prevention, rental assistance, shelter, permanent supportive housing and harm reduction programs.
    Alfredo Reyes Jr, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Private owners had already financed the company, increased its scale and gained liquidity.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • Much and possibly most is financed, off-balance sheet and not lit.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • But her jump shot, which has been blessed by the NBA 3-point king Stephen Curry himself, is what captured the national imagination.
    Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 July 2026
  • The deal was blessed by the Justice Department in June (reportedly over the objections of staffers who were reviewing it).
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • Tony's Pizza Napoletana has quickly established itself as one of San Francisco's most beloved pizza joints.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
  • Azzuro said about 1,000 invasive species have been identified in the Mediterranean, with 800 of them firmly established.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Verb
  • Health insurer Centene’s net income eclipsed $1 billion in the second quarter as the company is getting a better handle on rising costs of people in its commercial and government-subsidized health plans.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • From 2015 to 2021, the Ecuadorian government subsidized 750,000 households – one-tenth of all households in the country – to replace their gas stoves with electric induction stoves.
    Ashwini Sehgal, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • The site has the Watkins house built in 1850 equipped with a summer kitchen, smoke house, icehouse and fruit dry house.
    Zuri Primos July 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • In Bordeaux, authorities took in thousands of evacuees, offering them food and shelter in an exhibition center, and the city’s mayor said it could be equipped to welcome as many as 10,000 people if that became necessary.
    Mark Carlson, Fortune, 25 July 2026

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