Example Sentences

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The founders certainly could have endowed the Supreme Court with preemptive oversight of laws enacted by Congress and the president.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2023

The show’s architects have endowed her with what has come to be known as her generation’s worst trait: a compulsive devotion to online oversharing and the cult of manufactured relatability.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

And so natural selection would have endowed organisms with means that help them solve conflicts in their favor: fangs, antlers, neurotoxic venoms.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2022

Scientists know little about this encounter, but it may have endowed Denisovans with immune-system genes from Neanderthals.

From Nature • Feb. 16, 2016

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt