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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

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

Becoming a mother engenders a brutal kind of honesty, says Heller, one that she tried to capture in “Nightbitch.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.

From Salon Sep. 20, 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

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

Reggie has engendered respect, even from those who once fought him.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

The crowds of novices being escorted to the top for a fee, huffed Sir Edmund, “were engendering disrespect for the mountain.”

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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