gifting

present participle of gift

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gifting Her philanthropy centered heavily on her home region, from the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, a book gifting program that mails free books to children, to disaster relief and education initiatives. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026 Parton, who died Tuesday at 80, was the consummate business executive behind Dollywood, the mastermind behind a book-gifting program, the philanthropic giant whose donation helped spur the Moderna vaccine for the coronavirus. Ethan Beck, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026 The following year, she was recognized with the prestigious Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy for her decades of charitable efforts, which also include her foundation’s Imagination Library, a monthly book gifting program for children under five. Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5. Kristy High, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 The Imagination Playhouse, a live musical staging of children’s books, promotes her literacy initiative and its work gifting hundreds of millions of free books. Carlye Wisel, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Notably, her Imagination Library book gifting program has given nearly 200 million books to children worldwide since its launch in 1995. Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 The book-gifting program is now in 50 states and has spread to Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 This year’s priciest offerings, which range as high as $85,000, include a gifting suite, locker-room access and private hitting clinics with tennis royalty on practice courts. Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gifting
Verb
  • By visiting the Basilica and blessing the new tower, the pope follows in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI who in 2010 consecrated the Sagrada Familia.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Jimmy Fallon has been blessing the New York Knicks with good humor for decades.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • The principal donation will go towards endowing the Met’s long-standing internships for undergraduate and graduate students in perpetuity.
    News Desk, Artforum, 4 May 2026
  • This information can indirectly influence national discussions by endowing them with more credibility.
    Marlen Bartsch, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For some, these new measures promise to weed out AI use in the classroom, whether by discouraging students from relying on LLMs or equipping professors with a foolproof method of identifying its use.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Advertisement Solomon therefore expressed skepticism about equipping thousands of DHS field agents, across the country, with even more advanced surveillance tools.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Gifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gifting. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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