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beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


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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

Baelor of all people knows the smallfolk would react poorly to their beloved prince letting injustice beget more injustice.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

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

King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

I always quote “beauty begets beauty,” and I can tell he does not read any literature or visit museums to stay sharp.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Society’s hatred, the novel suggests, begets a destructive self-hatred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

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

He’s written and produced hundreds of hours of television, and conceived the WGA’s Television Writers Handbook, which begat the WGA’s Showrunner Training Program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

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

“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

Shepherd’s day job is producing documentaries for the BBC, including the 10-part radio series that begot this book.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022

In the meantime Lord Mantios begot Polypheides, the prophet, and Kleitos—famous name!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

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

“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

What I leave unaddressed — persistent pain, nagging uncertainty about a diagnosis, a social dilemma — tends to stay that way, begetting yet another visit.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2019

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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