endow

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David A. Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft and Workday, is giving $371.5 million to Cornell University, largely to endow the Ivy League school’s engineering college, which will be named after him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Unlike the novelists I avidly read in my formative years, these playwrights invited actors to endow their words with body and voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

For breeders to make use of that diversity, however, they need to know which landraces could endow wheat with potentially desirable traits.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 16, 2024

"We show that we can use this fluid to endow intelligence into a simple robot," said Djellouli.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

The effectiveness of the suffragist and temperance movements would endow American women with more power than they had ever known.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler