Synonyms for bestowed
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1. List of paraphrases for "bestowed":

   conferred, awarded, granted

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1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936:

   In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

2. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!”

3. Danielle Weston:

   The censure resolutions would strip us of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters and would violate the law.

4. Feltham:

   There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due, we are not angry with the author?s insincerity.

5. Bryan Habana:

   The best moment of my career was getting the opportunity to pull on the Springbok jersey for the first time and run out for my country, to understand the privilege that it was, and to understand the responsibility that was bestowed on me to do that.