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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

“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

Perhaps the act of being prescribed a medication and taking it would engender a different hope, one that might work about as well as any other placebo.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 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

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

“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

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

It also threatens to upend decades of U.S. foreign policy under which Washington engendered goodwill with allies by protecting sea lanes and serving as a guarantor of the free trade of oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 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

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

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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