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or indue
1
as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
professional soldiers endued with an ironclad sense of duty and honor
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2
as in to gift
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
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Two frame types—the Breitling Chrono 0002 and Breitling Lémain 0001—are available directly from Cutler & Gross in different colors and editions, and each is suffused with nods to the Swiss watchmaker’s esteemed dive watch collection.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
7 Oct. 2025
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Coleman fumbled away his first catch in that game, at Buffalo’s 10-yard line, gifting New England a free field goal in a three-point game.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Tubi, boldly built for fandom, is gifting a suite of some of Keaton's most beloved and relatable motion pictures to viewers for free on the streaming service.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Across almost 20 novels, the British author spun fantastical tales with unsentimental wit, infusing his work with darkly morbid humor, blithe child endangerment, rotten and antagonistic adults, and a willingness to occasionally laugh at the misfortune of others.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Trinity community has been blessed by his presence.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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Usually, the question was couched in politeness, but my students (bless them) had not yet learned to be subtle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Taylor’s cerebral bent is nothing new, but here, it’s imbued with a fresh, tentative sweetness, and anchored by a genuinely swoony summer romance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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That’s because, as it’s repeated, the masses will start treating the meme as if it’s imbued with meaning.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the junta chief Min Aung Hlaing met in Moscow in May to discuss cooperation, endowing the junta with an air of global legitimacy.—
Dan Swift,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2025
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This week Vilnius City Council has just greenlit the launch of the the first city fund in the country, the Vilnius Film Fund, endowed with a €100,000 ($116,700) budget.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Semafor traced it to a pair of US life insurers that had funneled policyholders’ cash to 777’s Bermudan reinsurer, which invested it into sports teams, airplanes, a payday lender, and a failing budget airline, among other bets generally unsuited for insurance guarantees.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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With deadlines set, delayed and often re-announced with each press conference, companies can’t plan or invest.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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After the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newton, Conn., President Barack Obama had his then-Vice President Joe Biden meet with representatives of the video game industry to discuss whether their products somehow inculcated violence in society.—
Time,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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Part of the emotional appeal of Reaganism was that there were left-of-center reprimands that seemed like an insult, an effort to inculcate shame, an effort to cast American history in a way that wasn’t sufficiently celebratory.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Endue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endue. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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