engendered

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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

Warren Buffett’s explanation of why the conglomerate held on to businesses that more “Darwinian” investors might have cut loose made sense—it engendered valuable goodwill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 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

The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn’t hard to understand.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy