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or indue
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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But there’s a tender vulnerability to his characters, and the daffy empathy that suffuses the writing is unique to Arbery.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025 -
His approach to bureaucratic combat was to suffuse the conversation with detail.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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Sterling and Bronze were gifted the cars for Christmas, with mom Brittany revealing their presents in a series of snaps on her Instagram Stories on Dec. 26.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Many of them said they were forcibly married as teenagers, others gifted to men as rewards for business successes.—
Teele Rebane,
CNN,
1 Feb. 2025
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For all the food imagery infusing Reichert’s book, there is an underlying sense that within this book is layered another and different book.—
Norman Weinstein,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Feb. 2025
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Of the fifty-two patients infused with Baxter’s product, twenty-four died, compared with only eight of the forty-six control patients, who were given a standard saline solution.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The occasion marked the halfway point between the winter and spring equinoxes, with clergymen blessing used candles and handing them out to locals every February 2. If the weather was bright and clear during the celebration, people believed the remainder of the season would be long and difficult.—
Rachel Dobkin,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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After more than a decade in the spotlight, Meghan Trainor is blessed, booked and busy.—
Jeff Nelson,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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Schrader imbues the film with entertaining hothouse sleaze, infecting just about every inch of the frame with an eerie, sensual energy.—
Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2025
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Violet’s relationship with her dragons imbues her with far more literal power, including lightning, than does her relationship with any love interest.—
Rebecca Scofield / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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That idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—
Theo Burman,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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America tends to swallow other cultures whole, endowing them with a good dose of homogenization – a Syrian refugee teen is just as likely as an American teen to be bent over his smartphone, impatient with his parents, and oblivious to the world at large.—
Robert Klose,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Dec. 2024
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Cramer was also skeptical that executives at tech giants like Meta, Tesla and Oracle would have invested so much money in Nvidia without performing proper due diligence.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, entrepreneurs willing to invest $800,000 in a US enterprise that creates at least 10 jobs can apply for the EB-5 visa.—
Lauren Carpenter,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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This preoccupation misses the elephant in the room: the disintegration or collapse of the Black family, the prime engine for inculcating behavioral norms indispensable to success.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2025
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Lammy’s education inculcated in him the rituals and expectations of the British establishment.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Endue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endue. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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