beget
Example Sentences
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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
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
I believe that violence will only beget more violence.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2024
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
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