grant. 1  to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter. 2  to give or accord: to grant permission. 3  to agree or accede to: to grant a request. 4  to admit or concede; accept for the sake of argument: I grant that point. 5  to transfer or convey, especially by deed or writing: to grant property.
Richard Wurman Since TED Talks were first started by  Richard Wurman in 1984, we've seen thousands of talks that have inspired our society. Over the past several years, we've seen more and more TED Talks focused on autism.
While the eventual GOP nominee for president has proved to be a walking, talking meme in his own right, the best meme of the Republican primaries was, hands down, the conspiracy theory that Sen. Ted Cruz is the infamous Zodiac Killer, who committed several unsolved murders in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.