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Still, the new fees will almost certainly engender sticker shock for L.A. residents already contending with skyrocketing insurance premiums, rising rents and eye-popping grocery prices.

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It’s a process that the state regulators have come to take somewhat more seriously in recent years, engendering an ongoing political backlash from density-averse local governments and neighborhood activists.

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Yes, progress was undeniably uneven and engendered a surprising amount of pushback, but there was no going back.

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The love triangles these relationships engendered became a rich source for his fiction.

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Together these shapes make what she calls “abstractions in reverse” — abstract pictures that engender natural landscapes of their own.

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