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1
as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
professional soldiers endued with an ironclad sense of duty and honor
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2
as in to gift
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute
she's always been endued with an unquenchable optimism
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Experiments like Strachey’s were part of an explosion of postwar research on the relationship between mathematics and language, expressions of a broader fascination with the automation of knowledge, which crossed disciplines and suffused the culture.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
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The rest of the film consists of the brother and sister’s return to the ranch, now suffused with dread at Misael’s inability to properly care for his sibling.—
Vadim Rizov,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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One of the quieter but more memorable pieces from the Donati group was Yves Tanguy’s Aux Aguets le jour, which had reportedly been gifted directly by the artist to the couple in the 1940s.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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Rubens started by gifting tea and selling to people already in her network.—
Alejandra Rojas,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Furniture, pets, and the residents themselves infuse the images with both ambiguity and meaning, creating a rich mosaic of city life across ages, backgrounds, and boroughs.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 May 2026
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Guguen’s life is infused with both music and perfumes, having played in bands and worked in the fragrance industry for decades.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026
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This phenomenon is formally known as the photic sneeze reflex, or as an Autosomal Cholinergic Helio-Ophthalmologic Outburst — unofficially blessing it with the spectacular acronym ACHOO syndrome.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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My family is blessed to have this family in our lives.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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In confronting this notion often taken for granted, his camera performs a rousing restoration of the power often stolen from them, ensuring that by the time the credits roll, they’re finally imbued with the kind of divinity only offered to them in name.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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This is a war film less ordinary, for it is imbued with the emotional acuity of a life-changing therapist.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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But on the flip side, some studies conclude that CODAs learn from playing interpreter at a young age to communicate better personally and professionally later in life, and may grow up endowed with special talents for conveying and reading facial expressions and gestures.—
Bob Brody,
Baltimore Sun,
9 May 2026
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The principal donation will go towards endowing the Met’s long-standing internships for undergraduate and graduate students in perpetuity.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
4 May 2026
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Teaching religion at two Catholic high schools before and after law school, my job was to inculcate Roman Catholic values in my students.—
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
27 Apr. 2026
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We sociologists infamously inculcate our innocent students with communist ideals.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire, has held a 27 per cent shareholding since investing under 1890s Holdings in 2021.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Vorhoff noted that while municipalities nationally have invested heavily in outdoor spaces following the pandemic, that spending has begun to level off in light of other competing needs, and the economic analysis is a reminder that parks serve as more than just attractive backdrops for cities.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
20 May 2026
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“Endue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endue. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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