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
  • The Egyptian government gifted the Temple of Debod to Spain in 1968, and it was meticulously reconstructed in Parque del Oeste.
    Jennifer Fernández Solano, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • To celebrate, Becerra’s father gifted him his maroon 1968 Buick Riviera, according to Thomas.
    Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This budget will also have to determine long-term solutions for positions that are grant-funded, particularly in law enforcement.
    Sofi Zeman August 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organizations, including MoveUp Southeast Michigan, MoveUp LA, and MoveUp Washington, will operate on their own but stay funded by the Ballmers.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Before 2021, foreign aid financed roughly three-quarters of public expenditures.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The financing There’s been very little disclosed about how this deal is being financed.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • America is blessed to have billionaire entrepreneurs who accomplish such things.
    Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • So a team at Anthropic thought Claude, free of mortality and blessed with superhuman invulnerability to boredom, should have a go.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Many residents pointed to the City of Patterson, which established a 45-day moratorium after they were reached out to by a data center developer.
    Nina Burns, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The backstory The Pocketbook Factory, established in 1885, was an entire city block of textile manufacturing that operated until 1978 and is now listed on the National Historic Register.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Firms invest more to produce more to export more at lower or negative margins, subsidized by local governments whose own fiscal health depends on the factories’ staying open.
    Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In the 80s and 90s, even major teams had often been run on razor-thin margins (and were subsidized by owners).
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Inside the hotel, there’s a larger sauna, cold plunge, and a small but impressively equipped gym (complete with a Peloton, treadmill, and free weights).
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The rivalry between Apple and Google rages on, as the latest smartwatches from the tech giants are similarly equipped to offer AI assistance and track your health from your wrist.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026

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“Endowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endowed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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