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bestow

[bih-stoh] / bɪˈstoʊ /


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We are also a species insufficiently grateful, it seems, for the favors flowers bestow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Australians demand success against Australia to bestow respect upon an opposing player.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Twenty-one percent of managers say Tesla is the market’s most richly valued stock, while 13% bestow the “honor” on Nvidia.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Economic relief comes from the unlikeliest of sources: an Indian “compassionate appointment” law that can bestow a deceased government employee’s job to the surviving spouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

For an extended pensive time, his shaggy head held sadly in his hands, Pacheco stared at this minuscule thing on which he had so omnipotently decided to bestow a future.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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