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

The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Intrigue begets further intrigue, and the reader struggles to keep up with a swirl of subplots involving Sweety’s assistant, a missing computer, blackmail, gangsters and corrupt politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Magalon and Santiago link lower budgets to more artistic freedom, which begets better films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

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

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

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

Buffett and his music — and the empire they begat — became pivotal figures in that claiming and invention.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

The success of “The Sound of Music Live” begat “Peter Pan Live!” in 2014, which begat “The Wiz Live!” in 2015, which begat “Hairspray Live!” in 2016.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2018

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Project Plowshares, the program that begot this test, bears more than a passing resemblance to today’s efforts to apply ever more powerful artificial-intelligence models to every area of human endeavor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Big investors begot bigger investors, and the list expanded to a roster of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Powell Jobs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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