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spawn

verb as in produce

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But advocates and lawyers say that heavy-handed tactics are spawning dangerous situations in neighborhoods.

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History offers cautionary tales of how special interests and public fear can spawn government policies that delay progress and raise the cost of the transition.

They and their friend Lord Byron were spending the summer by the lake when a bad dream and a competition to make up scary stories spawned the idea that became Frankenstein.

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Similar descriptions summarize any number of crimes previewed in episodes of “Dateline” and the galaxy of crime shows it and other network newsmagazines spawned.

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This absolutely loony bit of racist paranoia spawned an “election integrity” movement that cloaked itself as patriotism and fairness, but at heart remained doused in fear-of-brown.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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