engender

Example Sentences

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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

“That being said, should it, as previously flagged, engender the restart of Ngungaju, increased supply will likely place downward pressure on prices,” says Jefferies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

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