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He occupied a chair that a longtime client, Ross Perot, had endowed for him in gratitude for years of tax advice that had saved the Texas entrepreneur untold millions of dollars.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2020

In addition to looming prison time, Avenatti had his name stripped from the award he had endowed at George Washington University’s law school.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2020

When Adam told his parents that Grant was a Georgetown tennis recruit, his father speculated that Grant’s billionaire family had endowed a building at the university.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2019

They had endowed fellowships for conservative graduate students, postdoctoral positions and professorships at prestigious universities.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2016

As a matter of fact he wasn’t laughing; it was only that Nature had endowed him with a perpetual and unavoidable grin.

From The Triumph of Jill by Young, F.E. Mills