endowment
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He had run Columbia University’s endowment immediately before moving to Harvard.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Today, roughly 90% of the $56.9 billion endowment is managed externally.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Hollein said he and the Lauder family began quietly fundraising two weeks ago for an endowment to pay for the ongoing upkeep of the museum, officially known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
It closed last year after its endowment came to an end.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
No matter what his or her genetic endowment, no one person’s immune system has enough different HLAs to identify every strain of every virus.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing endowment
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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