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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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

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

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

This passion, more than any syllabus, is what engendered my own dedication.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025

The crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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 HIV/AIDS crisis also devastated a generation of people, destroying social communities and engendering a need to rebuild.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

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

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