inducing

Example Sentences

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"It's anxiety inducing to watch the actual announcements. I've done it before," she told the BBC at the annual Academy Awards luncheon.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Between marrying a real-life couple during halftime and inducing Farah Griffin’s labor, it seems that the Bad Bunny effect also includes manifesting major life milestones.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

If ketamine’s antidepressant effect owed to, say, inducing neuroplasticity, the drug should still work even if participants were unconscious.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

When I got Bingo, these facts were framed to me as a kind of conspiracy—corporations exerting influence on vets, inducing them to sell ultraprocessed food to pet parents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Tales of Lynds’s feat—of inducing inmates to build for themselves the largest prison in the land while unmanacled, uncontained by a prison wall—spread across the country and abroad.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover