engender

Example Sentences

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The nearly finalized trade that will bring Harden to the Clippers from the Philadelphia 76ers for four role players and draft picks may offend sensibilities but should also engender applause.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think that also engenders great trust in the process if it’s done in a respectful and appropriate way,” she said.

From Washington Times

The researchers found that moral violations, such as gender discrimination, engendered harsher judgments toward ingroup members than non-moral violations, such as tardiness.

From Science Daily

This should not be hard to do, but in a conflict with roots as deep and fraught as this one, even simply empathizing with the pain of other human beings engenders accusations of bias.

From Seattle Times

Grammer is a lifelong Republican, but regardless of one’s politics, everyone laughed with and at his fussy therapist, and the empathy he engendered was nearly ubiquitous.

From Salon