engender
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As Wasow and other researchers have found, a heavy-handed police response—like the kind that happened during the Civil Rights Movement and has already happened in France—can engender public sympathy.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
"This will hopefully engender trust with those organizations that are responsible for preserving these historic documents."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The happiest workers can engender similar emotions in their customers, but they are also better at their jobs,” said the report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
This the power lovely and terrible, what we try to engender in Kwang’s giant money club, our huge ggeh for all.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Seeing them die, one by one, as their cases drag on thanks to bureaucratic intransigence engenders an almost primal sense of outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
And all of this neglect engenders heartache as much as it does violence, creating a cyclical link between the two that “Bugonia” sits firmly in the center of.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
“The level of chaos and fear it engenders appears to be a feature here, not a bug.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
Voldemort’s expression remained impassive as he said, “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Tucked away in semirural settings away from the urban core, both communities, despite their dramatic demographic differences, share an insularity that engendered strong identities and also made them vulnerable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
“They’re not engendered by the stimuli-questions; no. Although biologically they exist. Potentially.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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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
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
At the same time, she said, women are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of losing sponsors or engendering a social-media backlash.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2023
He added as a self-evident proposition, engendering low spirits, “But you can’t marry, you know, while you’re looking about you.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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