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"Generate" in literature conveys the act of bringing something into being, whether it be a physical phenomenon, an abstract concept, or a ripple of social change. Authors employ the term to denote the production of tangible elements—as when friction generates heat [1] or an engine generates speed [2]—while it also serves to illustrate the creation of intangible forces such as knowledge [3], emotions [4], or even moral imperatives [5]. Such usage spans technical processes, like generating electricity [6, 7, 8], to more metaphorical implications where actions or conditions give rise to new ideas and cultural shifts [9, 10, 11]. This versatility underscores a broader literary tendency to use "generate" as a dynamic bridge between cause and effect across both natural and human realms [12, 13].
  1. Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress, and Mr. Tulliver's heat was certainly more and more palpable.
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  2. Now then, since an engine is needed to generate that speed, and a mechanic to run that engine, I conclude: we're saved."
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  3. To generate knowledge in his pupils is a legitimate end of the teacher's ambition.
    — from What Is and What Might BeA Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes
  4. "Oh, there is poisonous stuff in any man's heart sufficient to generate a brood of serpents," said Elliston with a hollow laugh.
    — from Mosses from an old manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  5. Just so when organic bodies generate a will bent on their preservation, they add a value and a moral function to their equilibrium.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  6. The electric cells you use to generate this marvelous force must be depleted very quickly.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  7. It would be possible to generate electricity by the energy of the moving train itself, and this has indeed been suggested to be done.
    — from The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband
  8. Dynamos are used to generate the current for heating and lighting purposes.
    — from Things a Boy Should Know About ElectricitySecond Edition by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
  9. Another challenge is maintaining economic growth over a period of time to generate employment and make the government debt burden more manageable.
    — from The 2006 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  10. The alternate truth that the catastrophies themselves are re-agents to generate the crisis-situation has not been so commonly noted.
    — from Catastrophe and Social ChangeBased Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
  11. It is wonderful how words generate ideas!
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  12. Ἐκφύω, ( ἐκ & φύω ) f. ύσω, to generate; to put forth, shoot, Mat. 24.32.
    — from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield
  13. And he who in youth has the seed of these implanted in him and is himself inspired, when he comes to maturity desires to beget and generate.
    — from Symposium by Plato

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