Example Sentences

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Not even the full power of the Chinese state has induced young families to have more children.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Wastewater injection has induced small to moderate-sized earthquakes around the world, however, making it important to study how CO2 injection produces seismicity and whether it might also induce larger earthquakes.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

The exchange has induced plenty of cringe on Twitter.

From Washington Times • Jan. 18, 2023

The fear behind the panic that this change has induced in the commenters published here is unwarranted.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2018

Two Editions of this little Poem have been already published; and its reception among those whom the author most wished to please, has induced him to include it in this volume.

From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde