beget
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“And selling could beget selling. It could be a waterfall event.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In terms of assessing longevity, years beget more years.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Baelor of all people knows the smallfolk would react poorly to their beloved prince letting injustice beget more injustice.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
A. Success begets success in the IPO market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Worse: The tiny microphone begets equally small questions.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Risk begets risk — for young men as much as anyone.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 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
We learn how Iceland’s glaciers, essentially rivers of varying pace, begat their unique ecosystems, but also how they provided the breathtaking terrain upon which Magnason’s grandparents Hulda and Árni fell in love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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
Yet that begat one of the greatest turnarounds in league history, which started with the hiring of Will Kuntz as senior vice-president of player personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
In fact, rather than Pythagoras’s triangle, there was a circle, or a cycle, at work: form begat information, and then information begat form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
A convoluted conclusion, begot by an unconvincing change of heart, obliterates any chance of “Hunt” offering the clarity it needs to be entertaining.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
In the meantime Lord Mantios begot Polypheides, the prophet, and Kleitos—famous name!
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
He trusted the promise of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Recent decades have seen the museum organised by way of a stately procession, in which art movements and -isms were shown to have begotten other movements and -isms.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2019
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., sent a detailed list of questions to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about his financial history this week, and those questions have now begotten further questions.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2018
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
The son of a goddess and a prince, he carried the ancestral burden of begetting a lineage of rulers in a foreign land.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2022
In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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