induces

verb

present tense third-person singular of induce
1
as in creates
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) the medication induced labor

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2
as in persuades
to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests finally induced the eyewitness to the gangland slaying to cooperate with the police

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Recent Examples of induces While the Blue Demon induces perceptual disorientation, the Rooster privileges visual attention and the architectural discipline of gaze. — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026 The drug induces a powerful loss of personal identity and a brief but total dissolution of time and space. — Ryan Sullivan, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Spotting even one Bolide in the wild is incredibly rare; seeing a pack of them hurtling down the circuit’s main straight induces goose bumps. — Sean Evans, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2026 One of the women, Max’s mentor, Herschel, induces him to go to Malta, to work on a collection by a local poet, Ana. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Perfecting the work inch by inch, writing from the first word toward the last, displays the courage and fear this method induces. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2026 Like most psychedelics, psilocybin’s effects are the result of interactions with a specific type of serotonin receptor in the brain, which both triggers the characteristic hallucinations and euphoria and induces neural plasticity. — Mike McRae 19, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026 Under Nevada law, someone who aids or abets a crime—or encourages, hires, commands, or otherwise induces another person to commit it—can be prosecuted as a principal. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 16 Aug. 2026 With enough pulses, the fast-swelling channel, as in Yutkin’s investigation, induces a shock wave that fractures the rock. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for induces
  1. creates
  2. persuades
  3. causes
  4. convinces
  5. generates
  6. satisfies
  7. brings
  8. gets
Verb
  • Kolbe’s distinctive use of language brings to life this period’s wonders and difficulties, and her maximalist approach to metaphor creates many energetic images.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That, in turn, creates incentives to manage the firm carefully with an eye toward long-term survival.
    — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of creates
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  • Fielder persuades Holmes to watch it for the first time, on a laptop in the couple’s bed.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • While posing artfully in the store’s shop window, Klara catches the eye of Josie (Mia Tharia), who persuades her mother Chrissie (Amy Adams) to buy her as a companion.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of persuades
Verb
  • Yet in September, Bangladesh reported a daily average of 1,198 new cases of measles, which causes a high fever, cough and telltale rash.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The organization’s focus areas are education, jobs and livelihood, and health—causes she’s cared about deeply since childhood.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of causes
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  • There’s a real opportunity in the fourth episode to do something fun, or at least interesting, when Tyson convinces Russ to join him in smoking hallucinatory toad venom, but no flair or flourishes emerge.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Costner cited a scene in which Dunbar introduces the Lakota tribe to coffee and convinces them to partake by sweetening it heavily.
    — Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of convinces
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  • Haider and colleagues, reviewing hair transplant tourism for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2025, estimated that the Turkish market alone generates around one billion US dollars a year.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Radialc ontent generates approximately 5 billion streaming hours annually.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of generates
Verb
  • In an email, HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard wrote that every committee member satisfies the FDA’s ethics requirements.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • As that churn suggests, none of these stories satisfies him, none proves sufficient to sustain a self.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of satisfies
Verb
  • Different Monsters Require Different Minds That brings us to today.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For property owners who poured their life savings into Camelot, the arrival of heavy machinery brings mounting anger over how local authorities handled the complex's long, troubled decline.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of brings
Verb
  • The simple industrial design gets a neat little accent in the form of a physical knob for adjusting playback, track navigation, and volume.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
  • This part of South America often gets heavy rain during El Niño, a natural climate phenomenon in which warmer-than-usual waters in the Pacific Ocean scramble weather patterns around the world.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of gets

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“Induces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/induces. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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