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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestow (on or upon)
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Target leans back towards DEI Target last week highlighted its partnership with the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs that provides education and other services to Black founders of small businesses.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025 -
Upcycling solid wastes This technique provides a versatile, scalable, and efficient strategy for upcycling solid wastes into high-performance materials for environmental and energy catalysis, as per the study.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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TechCrunch reports that Also already has a deal in place to supply one of the quads, which features a large cargo compartment, to Amazon.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
23 Oct. 2025
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Teams are placed into CIF Southern Section girls volleyball playoff divisions according to their rating supplied by Massey Ratings System.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
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Four men, clad in white with black turbans, face a pile of instruments on fire.—
Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Sewing has always been a political act—from the millions of unrecorded women who sewed to clothe their families and bring in a little extra cash on the side, to the UK AIDS memorial quilt, the world’s largest community art project.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Because John Herschel believed that the correlation between magnetic storms and auroras revealed both to be meteorological phenomena, the new observatories would be equipped with weather instruments that, in time, would permit the first global measurements of climate change.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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As for grunt, Big Naan is equipped with two 742 kW Caterpillar C32 ACERT engines that enable a top speed of over 14 knots, a cruising speed of 12 knots, and a range exceeding 5,500 nautical miles at an economical speed of 10 knots.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Bestow (on or upon).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestow%20%28on%20or%20upon%29. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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