Eliciting [verb]

He also shows many of the same experimental tendencies we see in human infants, such as repeating a behavior and watching the elicited response from adults.

While the algorithm rewards pictures of newborns and puppies, it is also inclined to promoting news stories—including fake ones—likely to elicit a reaction.

Furu tofu, for example, a lacto-fermented type of tofu unfamiliar to most American consumers, is used throughout the menu and elicits questions, which Junzi’s staff is trained to answer thoroughly.

When older adults get the flu vaccine, for example, the shot doesn’t elicit as strong an immune response as it does in younger adults.

Similarly, as the Bush tax cuts expired, Democrats ended up voting to keep most of them in place, because to do otherwise might have elicited voters’ wrath.

Sometimes it’s difficult to unknot my own choices from the reactions that are sure to be elicited by them.

Some conversation ensued with the unhappy young man, but they could scarcely hope that they were eliciting the truth from him.

Looking at her, he was conscious of being absorbed in the attempt to keep his temper instead of eliciting what she had to tell.

This, as may be supposed, did not prove a ready means of eliciting a confession from the cowardly Grandison.

They knocked several times, eliciting no response, and finally opening the doors, they found that the occupants had moved out.