engender
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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
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
“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
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Sustained success engenders unity, and new traditions will emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
“The level of chaos and fear it engenders appears to be a feature here, not a bug.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 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
Because of the power imbalance and the provision of the benefit that engenders loyalty.”
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
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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
Yes, progress was undeniably uneven and engendered a surprising amount of pushback, but there was no going back.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
The impossible excitement that this engendered in Baby Kochamma wasn’t hard to understand.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
Occasionally, I wished that the emphasis would have shifted more to the drama than to the religious feeling it was engendering in the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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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