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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 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

“Sales are going beget sales here for a little bit until the weaker hands are shaken out of this market,” Haworth said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A convoluted conclusion, begot by an unconvincing change of heart, obliterates any chance of “Hunt” offering the clarity it needs to be entertaining.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

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

But the rat itself was surely born here, in the Valley, begotten of that species of teenagers caroming through the malls in flocks and packs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

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

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

Globetrotting has begotten congressional scrutiny and the media’s glare.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019

All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“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

Some executives argue that zeal over returning to the office can build on itself, with occupants begetting more occupants.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

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

Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate."

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie


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