given away

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These include the Turner Foundation, founded in 1990, which supports efforts to fight climate change and improve air and water quality and has given away some $380 million.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

Ben White looked to have secured victory for Thomas Tuchel side's late on, only to then be adjudged to have given away a stoppage-time penalty which Federico Valverde converted.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

"Our country will neither be given away, nor will our future be gambled with," Greenland's Deputy Prime Minister Mute Egede said in a post on Facebook.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Although Ramshaw had cordial conversations with the charismatic leader about Conoco’s ventures, his government believed the country’s crude had been wrongly given away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

If you analyze the odds of being given away at birth and then losing another full set of legal guardians 147 months and 7 days later, I'm right on the edge of the graph.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan