beget
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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
“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
Rather than allow mistake to beget mistake, as they so often did across the autumn, Ireland moved slowly through the gears before finally reaching cruising speed.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
Rams wrapped in theremo- gene beget no lambs.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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