endow

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The aim is to endow Claude with a sense of morality—a digital soul that guides the millions of conversations it has with people every week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

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

Many people know fish sauce from Asian cuisines, where it is used to endow dishes with umami.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

It reminds us that Puccini, who was always searching to endow his scores with “local color,” didn’t just compose exotic-seeming, faux-Asian tunes for his operas, but also sought out actual Asian examples.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024

They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende