endowments

noun

plural of endowment
as in talents
a special and usually inborn ability it's a sin to waste one's God-given endowments

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Recent Examples of endowments And not, funningly enough, over those epic endowments ! — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026 Private schools that don’t have billon-dollar endowments have struggled to maintain their excellence. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 26 May 2026 Pension funds and endowments that wrote checks for venture exposure may end up with something closer to private equity. — Jasmine Wu,deirdre Bosa, CNBC, 8 June 2026 Almost all the land was in the hands of oligarchic families or in the hands of mosques, the mosque endowments, and at the emancipation of women, giving women the right to vote. — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 Kinshasa hopes the bourse, which will list securities in both the local currency and the US dollar, will tap into global interest in its mineral endowments. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 3 July 2026 There are regional transitions, shaped by resource endowments, politics, income levels, industrial structure, security concerns, and affordability. — Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Trouble for the little guys Highly prestigious schools, including the Ivies or public systems with large endowments like the University of California, might be insulated from the demographic crisis, Baum said. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 20 June 2026 Most Red Raiders feel that Texas Tech does not get its proper piece of all of that Permian Basin revenue, which flows legally, and freely, to Texas A&M and the University of Texas; those rights bloat A&M to UT’s respective endowments to the billions, while Tech only gets millions. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for endowments
  1. talents
  2. gifts
  3. aptitudes
  4. knacks
Noun
  • By eliminating your class and your ethnicity, your natural talents and weaknesses, from consideration, the veil reminds you that those traits are beyond your control, making fairness an incentive.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
  • Head coach Carlos Queiroz has become well known for his tactical knowhow on the defensive end and will look to thwart Colombia’s many offensive talents.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Definition of talents
Noun
  • Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez also asked for no gifts at their Venice wedding, instead telling invitees that donations were being made on their behalf to the UNESCO Venice Office, CORILA and Venice International University.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • Few birthday gifts top the Statue of Liberty, which France commissioned for the centennial of American independence.
    — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026
Definition of gifts
Noun
  • For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
    — GRACIA LIU-FARRER, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025
Definition of aptitudes
Noun
  • Donate your knick-knacks to the thrift store for the true collectors to snatch up.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
  • There are thousands of different novelties, knick-knacks and souvenirs here.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 11 June 2026
Definition of knacks

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