SPAWNS Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

spawns

verb

present tense third-person singular of spawn

as in creates

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) these artists spawned a whole new movement in painting

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Recent Examples of spawns Slop spawns, and Waymo’s artificially intelligent cars hum into view like two-ton rolling Rorschach tests. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Molluscum is caused by a virus and spawns the pimple-like bumps. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026 But the software wrapped around it reinserts the objective on every turn, stores progress to a file, spawns subagents, retries on failure, and keeps going until a verifier says the task is done. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The average female lionfish spawns around 27,000 eggs every three days, so unsurprisingly, the species quickly spread throughout the Caribbean, up the East Coast and east to the Bahamas. — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026 The coupling that El Niño spawns between the atmosphere and the warmer water along the Equator tends to create sinking winds over the Atlantic that disrupt cloud formations that could otherwise become hurricanes. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Hating cops also spawns ridiculous protests, like the ones that called for police to be defunded. — Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026 The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026 But reading the profile of Mohamad Eisa and Yolka Gessen left me with a kind of dread, the kind that comes when a spin-off from a hit show spawns a spin-off of its own, promising/threatening hundreds of new hours of content to keep up with. — Jessa Crispin, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The brand sources and then produces chocolate right at the source in Madagascar and Uganda, partnering with Direct Trade farmers.

— Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Dori Media, which produces film and TV out of Tel Aviv, Zurich and Buenos Aires, was approached by representatives for Sphereorigin about working together on a film.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

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