engender
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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
First, it can engender a positive, can-do attitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Not only can the word cure generate expectations that may not be met and engender disappointment, he says, but it could also have unforeseen practical implications.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 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
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In some ways the movie treads similar ground as “You Can See Everything,” both films taking shape as dramas of documentary-making and the ethical and personal conflicts it engenders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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
And all of this neglect engenders heartache as much as it does violence, creating a cyclical link between the two that “Bugonia” sits firmly in the center of.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 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
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
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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
Now that these activities and the protests they have engendered have resulted in multiple deaths, the administration and its allies are further undermining trust by their public response to the incidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 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
To the best of my knowledge, for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
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