engender
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That debate over the declaration helped engender the equal citizenship amendments added to the 1789 Constitution at the Civil War’s end—specifically, as the Supreme Court recounts, in the 14th Amendment’s first sentence repudiating Dred Scott.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 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
“That being said, should it, as previously flagged, engender the restart of Ngungaju, increased supply will likely place downward pressure on prices,” says Jefferies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Sustained success engenders unity, and new traditions will emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
He says the hope it engenders can not only help people cope emotionally with a cancer diagnosis but can even motivate them to seek treatment.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
Deciding what content is acceptable on social media platforms "engenders considerable debate among reasonable people about where to draw the correct proverbial line," X said.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
But his wider view starts from a place of optimism about what curiosity engenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
The silence this stigma engenders among family members, neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, and strangers is perhaps the most painful—yet least acknowledged—aspect of the new system of control.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Equally, the need for professors and instructors engendered by the college boom created its own class of intellectuals and intellectual hangers-on.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
These include the shifts in audience habits engendered by the pandemic and the explosion of streaming, which has seen viewers choosing to stay on the couch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
The daring enterprise has engendered a host of grand theories about Mr. Trump’s strategic decision-making, the ideas behind it, and its implications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn’t hard to understand.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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And Kenny Scharf’s cartoon-infused painting and sculpture are paeans to arrested development that are about as capable of engendering childlike wonder as a tax return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The fact that Tilly Norwood and the company behind ChatGPT are simultaneously engendering such controversy is not a coincidence: This is an existential moment for human-created entertainment as we know it.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
The HIV/AIDS crisis also devastated a generation of people, destroying social communities and engendering a need to rebuild.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Occasionally, I wished that the emphasis would have shifted more to the drama than to the religious feeling it was engendering in the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
The crowds of novices being escorted to the top for a fee, huffed Sir Edmund, “were engendering disrespect for the mountain.”
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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