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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

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

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

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

But the return of cursive engenders rare bipartisan accord in California and in other states.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2024

True threats are defined as words that “subject individuals to ‘fear of violence’ and to the many kinds of ‘disruption that fear engenders.’

From Slate Oct. 17, 2023

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

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

Warren Buffett’s explanation of why the conglomerate held on to businesses that more “Darwinian” investors might have cut loose made sense—it engendered valuable goodwill.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch Oct. 21, 2025

That would have likely put an end to the late pickups, though it would have also engendered plenty of ill will.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

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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