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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,” Capital Alpha said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

In terms of assessing longevity, years beget more years.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

It’s unclear whether filmed Broadway shows like “Merrily” can become the new concert film, but as always in showbiz, success begets success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

The need to protect past lies begets new lies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

Don’t they know that regret begets regret begets regret?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

We learn how Iceland’s glaciers, essentially rivers of varying pace, begat their unique ecosystems, but also how they provided the breathtaking terrain upon which Magnason’s grandparents Hulda and Árni fell in love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

From Salon ● May 31, 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

I don’t know how they begat Saint Sarah and her bubbliciousness.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Then a funny thing happened after I retired and began winnowing my stuff in earnest: The resulting tidiness begot more tidiness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

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

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

How great if this type of four-quadrant filmmaking didn’t have to cosplay as a begotten relic — if it could take courage from these dinosaurs and thrive in our modern times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024

“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

The concept started in Los Angeles in 2012 and has since begotten showcases around the world, along with a monthly incarnation in Brooklyn.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

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 stock market crashed in 1929, begetting federal securities regulations including the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission — in 1934.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

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

Lies were told and then exposed, begetting more lies to explain away the initial deceptions.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer


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