endowed

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Much of the picture is devoted to songs and dances, with the children trying to determine whether this ragtag minstrel is really endowed with supernatural abilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

The Smithsonian is named for James Smithson, a British scientist who endowed the museum with a gift in his will.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2025

The senior official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence's recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights."

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

As her words fell upon my new ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere within me.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright