engender

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

These gestures engender goodwill because music lovers have “an expectation of fairness” when buying concert tickets, said Pascal Courty, an economics professor at the University of Victoria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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

“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

If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

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

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

The love triangles these relationships engendered became a rich source for his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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

The ethos of bold curiosity and discovery at the original video store has been transferred to the new store and theater space, engendering what Segan called “a safe place to figure it out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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