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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
engender .
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Examples
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Although Khomeini himself passed from the scene just weeks after issuing his decree, the spirit it engendered is very much alive.
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Although Khomeini himself passed from the scene just weeks after issuing his decree, the spirit it engendered is very much alive.
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What it has engendered is obscene amounts of money for a very few and that is all.
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In September (the same time Apple was having their upsurge), the day John McCain took credit for the financial crisis phone call engendered by Obama, I literally opened my new Apple computer and signed on.
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"Think about the fear and anger you have engendered from the DLC, the other candidates, and many in the Washington establishment," he writes.
Time to celebrate! 2004
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"Think about the fear and anger you have engendered from the DLC, the other candidates, and many in the Washington establishment," he writes.
Archive 2004-01-01 2004
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I need to find some other way to mark something that will engender the sort of dialogue that this engendered, which is obviously my goal, without seeking to take credit to something which is mine, which is obviously not my goal.
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Enthusiasm was raised in the idea engendered in all ranks that they formed part of a great engine of war, furnished by their own counties and immediate neighbourhoods.
1914 John Denton Pinkstone French 1888
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He lamented that race relations were deteriorating under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi without even considering that it is the culture of Umno, which he himself engendered, which is responsible for Umno's racist and bigoted actions.
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The action of the facial muscles, as well as the facial expression engendered by this action, was widely different from like phenomena when the dog showed his teeth in anger. [
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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