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The excitement McAvoy and company are engendering on one side of the East River can at key moments be felt on the other side, in the revival of a modern classic.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

But when Tidbeck’s characters sing the marking song, they are not fighting a false reality so much as they are engendering it.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017

His group believes the activists are engendering a backlash against Cubans by way of disorderly protests and unrealistic requests of the cash-starved Ecuadorian government.

From US News • Jul. 6, 2016

The new supplies, moreover, are engendering rivalries between groups that had hitherto cooperated in uneasy but mostly effective alliances.

From Washington Post

A public relations executive who puts on theater and concert galas predicts that such bonfires of the vanities are engendering "a class of monks, who will live without benefit of cultural influence, except for television."

From Time Magazine Archive