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begotten

[bih-got-n] / bɪˈgɒt n /


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Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2024

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

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