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engender

[en-jen-der] / ɛnˈdʒɛn dər /


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"This will hopefully engender trust with those organizations that are responsible for preserving these historic documents."

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 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

These gestures engender goodwill because music lovers have “an expectation of fairness” when buying concert tickets, said Pascal Courty, an economics professor at the University of Victoria.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 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

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

Sustained success engenders unity, and new traditions will emerge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

Foster’s Bonnie may be second banana, but she engenders real compassion when she asserts herself letting viewers in on her life even if Diana is blind to Bonnie’s desires.

From Salon Mar. 7, 2024

“Tótem” captures the flow of an imperfect family in which what’s left unexpressed engenders conflict between people who otherwise deeply love each other.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 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

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 utter subservience of American pop culture to baby boomers over the past 50-odd years has engendered justifiable resentment among members of the subsequent alphabet generations.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch Oct. 21, 2025

Yes, progress was undeniably uneven and engendered a surprising amount of pushback, but there was no going back.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2025

I thought about taking advantage of the good will I’d engendered and telling her about the job situation, but I didn’t want to spoil her evening.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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 ethos of bold curiosity and discovery at the original video store has been transferred to the new store and theater space, engendering what Segan called “a safe place to figure it out.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 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

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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