begotten
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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
Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2020
“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
Globetrotting has begotten congressional scrutiny and the media’s glare.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019
Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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