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engender

[en-jen-der] / ɛnˈdʒɛn dər /


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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

That debate over the declaration helped engender the equal citizenship amendments added to the 1789 Constitution at the Civil War’s end—specifically, as the Supreme Court recounts, in the 14th Amendment’s first sentence repudiating Dred Scott.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

“The happiest workers can engender similar emotions in their customers, but they are also better at their jobs,” said the report.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 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

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

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

But his wider view starts from a place of optimism about what curiosity engenders.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2024

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

Now that these activities and the protests they have engendered have resulted in multiple deaths, the administration and its allies are further undermining trust by their public response to the incidents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 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

Reggie has engendered respect, even from those who once fought him.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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 stadium’s engendering change all right, but the cost feels too high, destabilizing.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2024

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

He added as a self-evident proposition, engendering low spirits, “But you can’t marry, you know, while you’re looking about you.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens




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