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
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
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
According to Jamie Lincoln Kitman, writing in The Nation in 2000, Ethyl executives allegedly offered to endow a chair at Caltech "if Patterson was sent packing."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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