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induce

[in-doos, -dyoos] / ɪnˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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Many economists call for the government to give priority to policies that would induce Chinese households to spend more in order to halt the debt spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I think that would induce a recession which would eventually drive down yields.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"The strain-dependent nature suggests that we may be able to use lattice strain as a tuning knob to induce or control altermagnetism," Zhang said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

If you’ve never been in a Dulles people mover, you might be puzzled by the white-hot hatred they induce.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Many of the counter-intuitive results cited in this book are psychological tricks similar to the above, which can induce a kind of innumeracy in even the most numerate.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

If you’ve never been in a Dulles people mover, you might be puzzled by the white-hot hatred it induces.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The findings were published in Science Advances in the paper, "Hydrostatic pressure induces strong leakage of dissolved organic matter from 'marine snow' particles."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

It is used in combination with a second drug misoprostol, which induces cramping.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

"A provider induces infringement if it actively encourages infringement through specific acts," it said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity’s pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

When she went into labour, Katie was induced and then "we were left in a room for long periods of time where I had no care," she explained.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Officials said they suspect medication he was taking induced a false result, allowing his entry into the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

To open the fifth, he induced Salas to hit the ball on the ground, but it got away from second baseman Tommy Edman as he dove up the middle, for a single.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Initial clinical trials using induced stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease are underway in Japan, according to Tackenberg.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

They will mate if induced to do so—but their offspring, called mules, are sterile.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Tanner Scott replaced him and got out of the jam by inducing Waldschmidt to fly out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The reasons range widely, from the need to protect manufacturing for defense purposes, to inducing trading partners to lower their trade barriers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

This separation is a phase change that consumes energy, inducing a cooling effect, like when steam evaporates off a cup of hot water.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

It signals to every counterparty transacting with a designated party that it could be next, inducing it to sever its ties to Iranian-linked finance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

And the meager fare at Mother Palmer’s boardinghouse up on the bluff was proving downright starvation inducing this year.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown


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