Sample Sentences for
induce
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(editor-reviewed)

induce as in:  induce symptoms

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She was suffering from alcohol-induced stupidity.
induced = caused
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    The doctor intentionally induced a coma.
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    The baby wasn't getting enough nutrients and oxygen, so we induced labor.
    induced = caused (in this case, childbirth to start)
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    I'm doing a little yoga for general health and to help prevent stress-induced weight gain.
    induced = caused
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    She has an eating disorder that is resulting in self-induced starvation.
    induced = caused
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    That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.  (source)
    induce = cause
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    Inducement of medication (Refer: Medical Unit Group) plus preknowledge interrogation failed to bring forth suspected knowledge of Subject A. Psychiatric reports (Refer: Psychiatric Profiles Plus Analyses) corroborate results of OZK series tapes.  (source)
    Inducement = something that causes something else to happen; or the act of causing something
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    In the absence of key nutrients, a severe chemical imbalance develops in the brain, inducing convulsions and hallucinations.  (source)
    inducing = causing
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    I myself received numerous solicitations from the mall management, special inducements and incentives to relocate my store as a "founding tenant," but even as some of my fellow merchants left the old village, I took heed of the comments I'd casually hear around town from the country and tennis club set, the matrons and well-heeled young mothers, that they never went over to Ebbington and would certainly not start now.†  (source)
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    In addition to containing the transmitter, the serum stimulates the amygdala, which is the part of the brain involved in processing negative emotions—like fear—and then induces a hallucination.  (source)
    induces = causes
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    Gladers fought, panic-induced adrenaline driving them on.  (source)
    induced = caused
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    Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing Dr. Jekyll to have been—well, murdered, what could induce the murderer to stay?  (source)
    induce = cause
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    The idea was to pick up stragglers but the cows needed little more inducement.†  (source)
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    When Liesel finally had a bath, after two weeks of living on Himmel Street, Rosa gave her an enormous, injury-inducing hug.  (source)
    inducing = causing
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induce as in:  induce her to

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I induced her to stay another year with a 20% raise.
induced = persuaded
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    I don't know what induced her to get a ride from someone who was so drunk.
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    No amount of sighing could induce Atticus to let us spend Christmas day at home.  (source)
    induce = persuade
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    I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pursue my enemy.  (source)
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    I do believe, Induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy.  (source)
    induced = persuaded
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    You can lie on the sofa for I know that nothing would induce any of you doctors to go to bed whilst there is a patient above the horizon.  (source)
    induce = persuade
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    Here he goes again, inducing me into submission by a simple switch in demeanor.  (source)
    inducing = persuading  (convincing)
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    When food is scarce, the Gamemakers will invite the players to a banquet, somewhere known to all like the Cornucopia, as an inducement to gather and fight.  (source)
    inducement = means of persuasion
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    At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child's voice.  (source)
    induced = persuaded
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    "O my master," replied the fisherman (and Shasta knew by the wheedling tone the greedy look that was probably coming into his face as he said it), "what price could induce your servant, poor though he is, to sell into slavery his only child and his own flesh?"  (source)
    induce = persuade (convince)
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    Amongst other things he was a dope pedlar and he was responsible for inducing the daughter of friends of mine to take to drugs.  (source)
    inducing = persuading
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    On the second day the calls are fainter; that will be because his lips and mouth have become dry. Our Company Commander has promised next turn of leave with three days extra to anyone who finds him. That is a powerful inducement, but we would do all that is possible without that for his cry is terrible.  (source)
    inducement = reward (something that persuades someone to do something)
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    She even induced Winston to mortgage yet another of his evenings by enrolling himself for the part-time munition work which was done voluntarily by zealous Party members.  (source)
    induced = persuaded
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    He had quite made up his mind that nothing would induce him ever to see her again.  (source)
    induce = persuade (convince)
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