1
as in gifted
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
a young performer endowed with a great singing voice
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2
as in funded
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
a wealthy businessman who endowed several museums
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as in financed
to provide money for
the program to bring the arts to inner-city youths is endowed by a grant from the federal government
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Recent Examples of endowed
Political messianism is a style of leadership that places great faith in a single leader who is endowed with godlike attributes.
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Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
After being injected with a mysterious serum, Gabriel is endowed with unprecedented abilities.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
There’s no doubt that the online backlash was swift and laugh-out-loud funny, the worst kind of insult to a man who sees himself as endowed with otherworldly powers.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
Tommy Caldwell appears to be endowed with this quirk of courage.
—Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
One endowed with a calling to lead.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2026
The winner will receive £30,000, anonymously endowed, along with a statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the late artist Grizel Niven.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
It is endowed with some of the richest mineral supplies on earth, including some 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, as well as huge reserves of copper and a Mendeleevian constellation of other metals.
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
After being injected with a mysterious serum, Gabriel is endowed with unprecedented abilities.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
There’s no doubt that the online backlash was swift and laugh-out-loud funny, the worst kind of insult to a man who sees himself as endowed with otherworldly powers.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026
Tommy Caldwell appears to be endowed with this quirk of courage.
—Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
One endowed with a calling to lead.
—Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2026
The winner will receive £30,000, anonymously endowed, along with a statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the late artist Grizel Niven.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
It is endowed with some of the richest mineral supplies on earth, including some 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, as well as huge reserves of copper and a Mendeleevian constellation of other metals.
—Nicolas Niarchos, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endowed
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Lima gifted her the latter two items and assembled all three trinkets in a line to hang from the original pin.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2026
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Having gifted us this wonderful illusion of closeness, Hit Me Hard and Soft — The Tour (Live in 3D) now offers her the grace of distance.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2026
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According to the bill text, the funds may not be used for any non-security elements of the project, which the administration says is being funded through private donations.—
Eric McDaniel,
NPR,
6 May 2026
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Lindell’s lab, funded by MARINER, focused on improving crop yield by selectively breeding kelp with desirable qualities — such as nonreproductive capabilities to prevent interbreeding with wild kelp — so that, down the line, farmers could scale up their kelp production.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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Large-scale infrastructure and housing projects financed through state bonds need stronger oversight.—
Linh Tat,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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It is being financed by $257 million congressional appropriation that was included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
4 May 2026
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O’Keefe-Dunne also was blessed with a lovely singing voice, her sister said, and her uncle had wanted to send her to a vocal coach — the same vocal coach used by singer Johnny Mathis, who then had not yet achieved worldwide stardom.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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And even if you are somehow blessed enough to be able to give a multi-million-dollar donation to a cultural institution…well, the guest list is already full of those whose checks have already been cashed.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
2 May 2026
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Our economic systems are not serving the people who live here, whose forefathers established this new republic, and our grandparents actualized the peak of its success.—
Linh Tat,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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Tarleton State first established its presence in Fort Worth in 1978 with a medical laboratory science program.—
Samuel O’Neal
May 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 May 2026
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Our social problem of bad food being so prevalent and so cheap and being subsidized by the government.—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
25 Apr. 2026
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If your loans are subsidized, the government will pay the interest during the grace period, Kantrowitz said.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
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In fact, the Sixers will be better equipped to attack this Knicks flaw if Embiid can return at any point in the series.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
7 May 2026
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The property is equipped with a heating system and a wall unit cooling system.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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“Endowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endowed. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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