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Inducing is usually gentle persuasion; you may, for instance, induce a friend to go to a concert, or induce a child to stop crying. An inducement is something that might lure you to do something, though inducements are occasionally a bit menacing, like the Godfather's offer that you can't refuse. Induce also sometimes means "produce;" thus, doctors must at times induce labor in a pregnant woman. Notice that induct and induction are somewhat different from induce and inducement, though they come from the identical roots.
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Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
If it's needed, wnt signaling may also be reactivated during regeneration after the loss of major portions of the animal, inducing the blastema to form new tail structures.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Finally Streaming Companion The daunting experience of going on a vacation with a new flame’s friends goes from anxiety inducing to bloody awful in this horror-comedy.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
In other words, the length of telomeres indicates how quickly someone may be aging.
Stressors associated with microgravity, radiation, diet, exercise, and even loneliness have all been shown to induce aging in astronauts.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Induce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/induce. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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induce
verb
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induce
transitive verb
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