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lends

  • present tense form of lend (3rd person singular).

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Rudolph Peterson Lends Some Advice The head of the world's biggest bank saw inflation coming more than a year ago and tried to head it off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wood core: Lends snap, while the absence of metal also helps give the ski a lively feel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lends out books at five cents a week, you know.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

This can be given only by an independent seer who "Lends a precious seeing to the eye."

From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry

Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, as the poet Campbell says it: Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith