engender

Example Sentences

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“Having this website engenders more transparency,” said Nick Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford.

From New York Times

The fabric of American society — our car-centric city design, our predilection for single-family homes and our self-reliant culture — seems engineered to engender loneliness.

From Salon

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

Nobody ever seemed to consider that enabling the right wing to become more and more extreme over the course of many years might engender a backlash of its own.

From Salon

And it may well be engendering a burst of financial instability that could spill into the larger economy in the form of rising unemployment.

From New York Times