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Rejected in street, a renegade's cause (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

generate

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'cause' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'rejected in street a renegade's' is the wordplay.
'rejected' is a reversal indicator.
'in' indicates a hidden word.
'etareneg' is hidden within 'street a renegades'.
'etareneg' written backwards gives 'GENERATE'.

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(Other definitions for generate that I've seen before include "Produce, create" , "Bring into existence for teenager" , "Create (power)" , "Produce, electricity say" , "Father" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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