as in created
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)
his rabble-rousing speech generated a lot of controversy among local taxpayers
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Recent Examples of generated
New state sales tax revenue generated within the massive STAR bond district will pay back the bond debt used to build a new stadium and accompanying facilities for several decades.
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Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.
—Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2026
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Rhode Island editor.
—Staff Reports, The Providence Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Bilal has previously been slammed with allegations of wild offenses ranging from spending department money on promotional items like trading cards with her likeness to having bogus news stories about her being generated by AI.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
Coca-Cola recently released an ad generated entirely by machines — studios in Los Angeles nudged it into the world with no human actors.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
Still, Lin agrees that the chat summary generated after an AI encounter can help a physician be more efficient.
—Martha Bebinger, NPR, 9 Jan. 2026
The 23-year veteran agent, Gregory Lairmore, testified during the trial that the incident generated a whiff of mustard and left onions hanging from the antenna of his police radio.
—Andrew Goudsward, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
That money will come from property tax revenue generated by the improved building − with annual payments provided to Northwestern Mutual.
—Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for generated
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
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An outrageous ambition, given that he was stuck in an outpost whose end had been decreed a few months earlier by the very men who had created and funded it.—
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Crews were already stretched thin battling the Palisades fire when 90-mile-per-hour winds grounded aircraft and caused the blaze to explode.—
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By March 2024, the state had already spent $3 million reimbursing ranchers for damages caused by wolves throughout the northern part of the state, as well as the cost of investing in nonlethal deterrents to keep them away, such as fencing, flags and other methods.—
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Playing Queen Charlotte brought her presence back to film following the height of her television fame with Prime Suspect.—
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Now, Letts has brought Coon back to Broadway with the Main Stem debut of his 1996 play Bug, a skin-crawling portrayal of people on the fringes.—
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Moore was subsequently fired from his position as head football coach, which prosecutors said prompted him to show up at her home.—
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This has prompted researchers to develop more reliable methods for copying quantum data.—
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The cider maker produced 89,907 gallons, or 2,900 barrels, in 2024, up a little more than 4% from the year earlier, according to the most recent numbers provided by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration.—
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Bug was first staged in London in 1996 and later produced Off-Broadway in 2004, earning a reputation as one of Letts’ most unnerving works.—
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Rags 2 Richmond is an interesting a case study as a microdrama that has spawned a full-length movie.—
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The mayor’s roots from his mother’s side is from post-independent India while his father’s side goes back to undivided British India, an entity that spawned three separate countries in the post war era including two, India and Pakistan, that have been continually at war since their birth.—
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“Generated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/generated. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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