beget
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“Boycotts can beget other boycotts, so there could be global risk to sales of U.S. business jets depending on how sentiment and behaviors change,” the Capital Alpha analysts wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Sales are going beget sales here for a little bit until the weaker hands are shaken out of this market,” Haworth said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
These downturns would create cracks in anyone’s self-esteem, but for people with NPD, the newly created cognitive dissonance between their self-image and the setback can beget a personality crisis.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
Rams wrapped in theremo- gene beget no lambs.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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But agent work begets human work: Onboarding customers at a faster clip means needing to respond to more customer requests, for example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
I’m thinking about how regret begets regret begets regret, and about the cycle I’ve just broken.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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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
“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
But that broken leg also begat the greatest comeback in NFL history and led to one of the gifts Smith gave Washington football fans — a rare Thanksgiving Day win over the Dallas Cowboys.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
But who begat you is a question with an answer only someone else can tell you.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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“I hadn’t understood, at the beginning, that public exposure begot more public exposure, that press begot more press, that parties begot more parties,” she tells us, of how the joys of attention began to curdle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Losing Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong, Ryan Donato and Carson Soucy is tough for a team where depth begot success.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Macfadyen delivers a different version of a doofy husband in this terrific three-part British docudrama mini-series about the creation of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and the cheating scandal it begot.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2023
In the meantime Lord Mantios begot Polypheides, the prophet, and Kleitos—famous name!
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
But Roy had been begotten in the marriage bed, the bed that Paul described as holy, and it was to him the Kingdom had been promised.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The work’s structure seems to have organically arisen from artists responding to one another, inspiration begetting inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
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
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
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