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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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Verb
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Someone is behind the camera, a person whose presence quietly suffuses the poem.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025 -
Whatever the noble title, Cronenberg wore the moniker with the same winking irony that suffuses so much of his work – using genre as a kind of Trojan horse to get his unique vision to travel.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
1 Dec. 2024
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On Monday, President Trump used the same Bibles from his inauguration in January 2017: a 1953 Revised Standard Version gifted to him by his mother; and the Lincoln Bible, used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Jan. 2025
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The partnership resulted in a limited run of gifting objects including ceramic decorative cases and jewelry holders glazed in the brand’s signature blue.—
Tianwei Zhang,
WWD,
21 Jan. 2025
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Formulated with 10 percent vitamin C, the serum is also infused with La Roche-Posay’s thermal spring water, an antioxidant-rich salve that hydrates and soothes the skin.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
24 Jan. 2025
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This recipe, which calls for an Instant Pot, infuses creamy pinto beans with the mild, smoky notes of bacon. Herbs and spices like chili powder, cumin, and even fresh cilantro impart a decadent richness to the broth.—
Yvette Zuniga Jemison,
Southern Living,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Lions offensive line also is blessed with experience.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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If God blesses a nation, nothing can thwart His purpose or our success.—
Maureen Mackey,
Fox News,
19 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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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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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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By the end of the decade, the two companies are expected to create more than 1,000 new jobs in the southern Wake County town and invest billions of dollars there.—
Zachery Eanes,
Axios,
20 Jan. 2025
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Examples of home runs include: · Instagram, where VCs doubled their investment in about a week. · eBay, where Benchmark Partners invested about $7 million and harvested about $2.4 billion in about 18 months.—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 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 30 Jan. 2025.
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