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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

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

Not only can the word cure generate expectations that may not be met and engender disappointment, he says, but it could also have unforeseen practical implications.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 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

Still, the crown jewel in the Yum Brands portfolio engenders a loyalty that seems to last for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

Becoming a mother engenders a brutal kind of honesty, says Heller, one that she tried to capture in “Nightbitch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 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

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

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

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

That would have likely put an end to the late pickups, though it would have also engendered plenty of ill will.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

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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