Re: In response to a recent editorial slamming the agencys newest adverti
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27 May 2025, 11:37
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Stemming from, engendered by.
If the editorialist is "on the board of the agency's primary competitor," then any attack on the ad campaign was probably written with ulterior motives. The blank should mean something like "coming from." "Stemming from" and "engendered by" would both fit this meaning ("engendered" means created or produced). "Producing" and "creating" are a trap here; they would suggest that the editorial itself created the adversarial motives, which isn't the case. The fact that the writer was on the board suggests that the adversarial motives led to the editorial, not vice versa. "Typifying" and "epitomized by" both suggest "being the ideal example of." The sentence doesn't suggest that the editorial is the perfect example of adversarial motives; it just implies that the piece was spawned by them.