engender

Example Sentences

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“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

Three orchestral concerts and a chamber recital at Carnegie Hall would normally engender nothing but pride from the musicians in question and reverence from audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

All three non-Arab states engender a good deal of suspicion and mistrust among Arab regimes but are nonetheless seen as key players whom no one wants to offend.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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