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engender
verb as in cause to happen; cause an action
Example Sentences
Mr. Trump has said that “real power” is the ability to engender fear, and he seems to have achieved that.
But though these art objects carry the weight of centuries of defeats and conquests, they can’t alone engender a cultural identity.
This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.
And yet, for all of “The Substance”’s stomach-flipping, ear-plugging content, what left me the most affected by the film was the raw emotion it engendered.
She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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