beget

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Many fear that the strategy of taking down top leaders will only beget more fighting.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The disaster beget $53 billion in losses, with insurers covering around $40 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 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

But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee