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engender

[en-jen-der] / ɛnˈdʒɛn dər /


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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

Iranian flags, however, don’t engender the same public fervor.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 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

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

And all of this neglect engenders heartache as much as it does violence, creating a cyclical link between the two that “Bugonia” sits firmly in the center of.

From Salon Oct. 31, 2025

“The level of chaos and fear it engenders appears to be a feature here, not a bug.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 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

Now that these activities and the protests they have engendered have resulted in multiple deaths, the administration and its allies are further undermining trust by their public response to the incidents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 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

Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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 stadium’s engendering change all right, but the cost feels too high, destabilizing.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2024

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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