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induce

[in-doos, -dyoos] / ɪnˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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But its soaring atriums decorated with onyx and green marble could hardly be better calculated to induce jealousy in Trump, who frequently raves about the opulent dwellings of other foreign leaders.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

You might think that these otherwise symmetrical examples of bad luck would induce similar levels of stress and anxiety.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Dean bowled accurately and found turn to induce false shots with 36% of her deliveries.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Soon after Waldorf arrived at the Kansas hospital, she received misoprostol to induce labor and delivered around 1 p.m.

From Salon May 27, 2026

After bandaging them neatly she had administered a potion that would deaden the pain and induce sleep.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Poornima, a salt pan worker, sips black tea during the day -- saying the hot drink induces sweating in the dry weather to cool the body.

From Barron's May 10, 2026

Their insight: Outcome-based penalties only work when embedded in a menu that first induces honest self-selection.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

The idea is that war induces market panic because of the kind of uncertainty associated with most geopolitical crises.

From MarketWatch Mar. 10, 2026

In conventional devices, microwave radiation induces an additional alternating current through the Josephson contact.

From Science Daily Dec. 23, 2025

“The transmitter and the liquid that induces the simulation. The transmitter communicates information to the brain from the computer, and vice versa, and the liquid alters the brain to put it in a simulation state.”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

In May, the performer, from Skewen in south Wales, was placed into an induced coma after having emergency intestinal surgery in Portugal.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Airlifted to a children’s hospital in Loma Linda, Chris was put in a medically induced coma.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

The Grammy-nominated Welsh singer had been placed in an induced coma after emergency intestinal surgery in May in Faro, Portugal, where she resides.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

He was put in a medically induced coma, his wife Ellen recounted to AFP, and was in intensive care for about a month.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

He stayed true to his identity, pounding the strike zone and inducing weak contact to go with nine strikeouts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

It signals to every counterparty transacting with a designated party that it could be next, inducing it to sever its ties to Iranian-linked finance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Roberts turned to right-handed reliever Treinen, who walked Moreno but got out of the inning by inducing Arenado to fly out to left field.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

"The hypothesis is that it's the lycopene from the tomatoes and the isoflavones from the soy that's inducing the effect, so we didn't want to have a control that's just water," Cooperstone said.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

And the meager fare at Mother Palmer’s boardinghouse up on the bluff was proving downright starvation inducing this year.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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