engender
verb
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Synonyms for engender
Synonyms
beget, breed, bring, bring about, bring on, catalyze, cause, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, invoke, make, occasion, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn, translate (into), work, yield
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Tom’s Place engendered loyalty from customers and employees because the Wrights treated people right, Belinda says. — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, "A barbecue revival at new Tom’s Place: ‘To honor my parents and keep their legacy alive’," 9 Sep. 2019 William also spent time chatting with some of the club’s fans to hear how soccer and the sense of community engendered by the team as well as the sport has helped them in their recovery. — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, "Prince William Visits Soccer Club to Promote Mental Health — and Calls Out 'Outrageous' Racism in Sports," 6 Sep. 2019 Michelle Alexander, a legal scholar and columnist for The Times, has argued that monitoring engenders a new form of oppression under the guise of progress. — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, "Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt," 3 July 2019 That spirit carried into adulthood, engendering feuds and lawsuits that became public displays of avarice and fraternal malice. — Robert D. Mcfadden, New York Times, "David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79," 23 Aug. 2019 Like our own world, China Miéville’s is marked by hierarchies of wealth and power, but the conflicts those hierarchies engender produce a universe of bizarre inhabitants, a compound of the medieval and the future. — Steve Fraser, WSJ, "Five Best: Steve Fraser on Social Class," 21 June 2019 The Trump trade war and the president’s mercurial approach to many policy issues engender economic uncertainty. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, "Edward Lotterman: Hooray for complexity in the Federal Reserve’s structure," 3 Aug. 2019 David Pomponio/FilmMagic Founded in 1966 as the Van Doren Rubber Company, Vans had engendered strong ties to the skateboarding community, which was loyal to the brand’s sneakers thanks to their grippy soles. — Hilary George-parkin, Vox, "How Warped Tour led the consumerist music festival revolution," 23 July 2019 But beyond that: Does Trump’s cruelty engender a real feeling of powerlessness? — Gregg Levine, The New Republic, "Is cruelty a winner?," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'engender.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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