engender
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Ms. Josefowicz writes with ease and wit, and her complex narrative is filled with an abundance of well-drawn characters and the subplots they engender.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
It could engender pride and joy at your stealthy maneuvers, indifference, resentment or using the friendship as collateral for a loan.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
“Judges should not have to worry when they rule against the president that the ruling will engender real personal threats,” Vladeck concluded.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Perhaps the act of being prescribed a medication and taking it would engender a different hope, one that might work about as well as any other placebo.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026
Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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