"engender doubts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to cause or give rise to doubts or uncertainty. Example: The conflicting accounts of the accident only served to engender doubts about the accuracy of the witness statements.
But some defenders of evolution said the amendment was intended to engender doubt in students about what most biologists accept as fact: that evolution occurs, even if there is debate about how and why.
When women and farmworkers speak up about wage theft, unsafe working conditions, or sexual assault and domestic violence, the enduring patriarchy and sexism endemic to U.S. workplace culture engender doubt, often spoken but too often insidiously unspoken.
McCain gave a speech on the Senate floor, supporting the President's nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, after that nomination engendered doubts even among some Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
China's amoral and selfish behavior increasingly engenders doubt and fear, not respect.
The impact of non-Christian Aristotelian and Arabic philosophy engendered fears, doubts, and suspicions.
"The museum is extraordinarily fortunate to have their untiring support, engendered no doubt by their empathetic and enthusiastic engagement with the arts.
George Hincapie, a former Discovery rider who is racing for High Road, said he thought the team would have a great deal of motivation to ride for the victory, because the team was new and because of the doubts engendered by the withdrawal of T-Mobile.
Megan's doubt engendered by the "Death Penalty for Fags" sign grew.
The tension between self-celebration and self-doubt engenders a kind of social electricity.
By Nick Paumgarten Among the guests at Davos, the tension between self-celebration and self-doubt engenders a kind of social electricity.
