begotten
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Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 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
“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 verse says: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
From The Guardian • May 16, 2017
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
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