Example Sentences

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Now that these activities and the protests they have engendered have resulted in multiple deaths, the administration and its allies are further undermining trust by their public response to the incidents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

A golden generation, who won the World Under 20 Championship in 2018 and 2019, have engendered a feel-good factor.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2022

For a small minority of state employees, the mandates have engendered deep mistrust and hard feelings.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021

If we were to revive the fable today in our media-dominated world, Baudrillard suggests, the map would have engendered the Empire, and “it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.”

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2018

The crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson