beget

“And selling could beget selling. It could be a waterfall event.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

That creates a positive feedback loop — weaker winds beget more warm water shifting to the east, which weakens winds even more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

But finding yourself in a bind necessitates clever solutions, and Park’s already dark comedy turns jet-black as the director reveals that stress can beget new talents.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

Rams wrapped in theremo- gene beget no lambs.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Society’s hatred, the novel suggests, begets a destructive self-hatred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“More often than not, strength begets strength,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

In markets, strength often begets more strength, or, as technicians like to say, trends once in motion tend to remain that way more likely than they are to reverse.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

It’s unclear whether filmed Broadway shows like “Merrily” can become the new concert film, but as always in showbiz, success begets success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

The survey begat headlines in the media, especially in finance-oriented publications like Fortune and Barron’s, that figuratively wrung their hands over the travails of the upper crust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

He’s written and produced hundreds of hours of television, and conceived the WGA’s Television Writers Handbook, which begat the WGA’s Showrunner Training Program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

But who begat you is a question with an answer only someone else can tell you.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Then a funny thing happened after I retired and began winnowing my stuff in earnest: The resulting tidiness begot more tidiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024

Likewise, expectations are heavy on Dunn, 26, after a breakout 14-goal and team-high 50-assist season begot a four-year, $29.4 million extension.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

His gets begot bigger gets — the most prominent being his 2002 profile of Johnny Carson in Esquire.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

How great if this type of four-quadrant filmmaking didn’t have to cosplay as a begotten relic — if it could take courage from these dinosaurs and thrive in our modern times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024

Investment has begotten investment and driven philanthropic interest, with Gray’s organization poised to help build a $54 million, 219-unit affordable-housing complex.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

“The creative inspiration people got from cheese boards has begotten creative inspiration for a lot of things,” she says.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020

Or, if begotten, to have fallen from the womb Straight into the grave, And to be smothered, unknowing, In the dirt of Hades.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The stock market crashed in 1929, begetting federal securities regulations including the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission — in 1934.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The slicing and dicing of available tables can mean there are only so many seats at the most sought-after establishments, begetting a sense of scarcity at the highest levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

That trend could itself be causing a vicious cycle of fewer children begetting fewer children, said Takuya Hoshino, senior economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.

From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023

Some executives argue that zeal over returning to the office can build on itself, with occupants begetting more occupants.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals, and the Neanderthals evolving into us.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari