engender

Example Sentences

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Tucked away in semirural settings away from the urban core, both communities, despite their dramatic demographic differences, share an insularity that engendered strong identities and also made them vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times

Avila also called for reform of California’s voter accessibility laws, which allow voters more options than in other states, and help engender California’s notoriously slow vote counts.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Trump has said that “real power” is the ability to engender fear, and he seems to have achieved that.

From Salon

But though these art objects carry the weight of centuries of defeats and conquests, they can’t alone engender a cultural identity.

From Los Angeles Times