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His characters put as much intensity into discussing the big stuff—heaven, hell, guilt—as they do the small, down to specific words, like beget or cahoots or Arkansas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“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

That creates a positive feedback loop — weaker winds beget more warm water shifting to the east, which weakens winds even more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

In terms of assessing longevity, years beget more years.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba’s sympathy.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet” begets similar difficulties: He loves to hear himself talk, and his utterances can have an acrobatic or even pyrotechnic quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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

Each question begets another, sweeping Macfarlane, his companions and now his readers along on that tide of thought.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

He expanded his herd further that year, adding Beatrice and Benito, who begat Mellie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024

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

“No. I’ll begat my rope. You don’t git things. You begat things.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Likewise, expectations are heavy on Dunn, 26, after a breakout 14-goal and team-high 50-assist season begot a four-year, $29.4 million extension.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

His gets begot bigger gets — the most prominent being his 2002 profile of Johnny Carson in Esquire.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

In the meantime Lord Mantios begot Polypheides, the prophet, and Kleitos—famous name!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024

Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

“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

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

The slicing and dicing of available tables can mean there are only so many seats at the most sought-after establishments, begetting a sense of scarcity at the highest levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

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

Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, described Leonard’s procedure last month as major surgery begetting a recovery “that’s going to require a great deal of time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

In so many ways, his family’s life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri