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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

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

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

“The level of chaos and fear it engenders appears to be a feature here, not a bug.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

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

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

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

That aspect of copyright law engendered a lengthy dispute waged by the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle against creative artists wishing to put Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson into new works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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 stadium’s engendering change all right, but the cost feels too high, destabilizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

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

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