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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

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

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

This the power lovely and terrible, what we try to engender in Kwang’s giant money club, our huge ggeh for all.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

“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

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

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

The utter subservience of American pop culture to baby boomers over the past 50-odd years has engendered justifiable resentment among members of the subsequent alphabet generations.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

For some, this has engendered a sense of paralysis.

From MarketWatch Oct. 21, 2025

Tucked away in semirural settings away from the urban core, both communities, despite their dramatic demographic differences, share an insularity that engendered strong identities and also made them vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2025

Yes, shadowy: a myth, a phantom: something which they engendered and created whole themselves; some effluvium of Sutpen blood and character, as though as a man he did not exist at all.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

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 ethos of bold curiosity and discovery at the original video store has been transferred to the new store and theater space, engendering what Segan called “a safe place to figure it out.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2023

At the same time, she said, women are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of losing sponsors or engendering a social-media backlash.

From Washington Times May 2, 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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