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The private bankers ultimately made loans for Doral, a Washington hotel and even the same Chicago skyscraper that had engendered the lawsuit.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Both had engendered broad interest on the basis of initially promising results.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022

It also hoped that it could combat the public fear and abhorrence of chemical warfare that WWI had engendered by presenting tear gas as a more humane alternative to bullets and clubs in restraining mobs.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2020

And then the story, and much of the outrage it had engendered, largely faded.

From Washington Post • Jul. 10, 2019

He found, moreover, that this, or some other cause, had engendered a degree of exasperation against him, that showed itself in the retrenchment of his comforts, and in the augmented rigor of his confinement.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton