Collocations for generate - verb

quickly
automatically, spontaneously
People used to believe that dirt spontaneously generated disease.

randomly
a sequence of randomly generated numbers

locally

help (to)
the opportunity to help generate ideas

be used to
The wind turbines are used to generate electricity.

be expected to, be likely to
The lottery is expected to generate substantial funds for charities.

from
Living cells generate energy from food.
profits generated from the company's activities

Generate is used with these nouns as the subject:
economy

Generate is used with these nouns as the object:
business, buzz, capital, cash, code, confidence, confusion, controversy, current, data, debate, demand, discussion, document, earnings, electricity, emission, employment, energy, enthusiasm, estimate, excitement, expectation, fee, flow, force, friction, fund, goodwill, headline, heat, hysteria, idea, image, impulse, income, interest, job, light, momentum, motivation, mountain, noise, outrage, oxygen, pollution, power, pressure, profile, profit, publicity, report, representation, resentment, response, result, return, revenue, sale, saving, signal, steam, stream, support, surplus, suspense, sympathy, tension, torrent, traffic, uncertainty, unease, voltage, waste, wave, wealth