begat
Example Sentences
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And in the course of this year I gave myself, I got the show “Godspell,” and that begat other things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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
He expanded his herd further that year, adding Beatrice and Benito, who begat Mellie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
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
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
