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Discover LudwigThe word "Induce" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe the act of causing something to happen or bringing about a particular effect. Example: "The doctor hoped to induce labor to ensure a safe delivery."
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Induce
verb
To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.
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Clandestine abortions cost anywhere between £50 for a packet of misopostrol pills (tablets that can be inserted into the vagina to induce an abortion), and £1,200 for an appointment in a private clinic.
The Libyan fund said it thought it was buying shares in the companies and alleges Goldman Sachs showered gifts on "naive" staff to induce them to buy products they didn't understand.
Water is then poured continuously over the cloth to prevent breathing, simulate drowning and induce panic.
Delegating day-to-day investment decisions to large asset managers, as pension funds and many individual savers do, "introduces fundamental incentive problems between end investors and fund managers, which can induce destabilising behaviour and amplify shocks," the Washington-based organisation says.
But waste in procurement coming only in average dribbles of, say, a trivial £1bn a time (a third of the total income from the licence fee) seems to induce only a modicum of interest among news editors and correspondents.
Books dealing with the loss of someone close, especially a parent, are probably needed only in the dreaded specific situation, since reading a story in which a parent dies (outside the safely formula-bound, once-removed world of fairytale) is likely to induce fearsome anxiety in young kids.
Here, the Doctor and Clara found themselves in the north pole being hunted by Dream Crabs, horrid things that attach to your face and induce a dreaming state as they feast on your brain (feasting being how they celebrate the birth of the Dream Crab Messiah).
Joyce sought the help of an itinerant traditional healer, who attempted to induce an abortion and left her bleeding heavily, alone and afraid for her life.
For reasons I shan't bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.
The torture report reveals that four detainees, each with "medical complications in their lower extremities", including two with broken feet, were placed in shackled standing positions for "extended periods of time" to induce sleep deprivation.
Deficit spending doesn't induce small businesspeople to hire and expand.
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