beget
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“And selling could beget selling. It could be a waterfall event.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Baelor of all people knows the smallfolk would react poorly to their beloved prince letting injustice beget more injustice.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 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
“More often than not, strength begets strength,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 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
It’s unclear whether filmed Broadway shows like “Merrily” can become the new concert film, but as always in showbiz, success begets success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
The need to protect past lies begets new lies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
I’m thinking about how regret begets regret begets regret, and about the cycle I’ve just broken.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
Yet that begat one of the greatest turnarounds in league history, which started with the hiring of Will Kuntz as senior vice-president of player personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
Indian musicians began adapting their own classical music for steel guitar, and in Africa, the quest to replicate the glissando effect begat a local technique dubbed “Hauyani” after the word “Hawaiian.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
It was family tragedy that begat a soldier.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 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
Project Plowshares, the program that begot this test, bears more than a passing resemblance to today’s efforts to apply ever more powerful artificial-intelligence models to every area of human endeavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Big investors begot bigger investors, and the list expanded to a roster of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Powell Jobs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Losing Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong, Ryan Donato and Carson Soucy is tough for a team where depth begot success.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Here he married, built a great manor house, fathered Antiphates and Mantios, commanders both, of whom Antiphates begot Oikleies and Oikleies the firebrand Amphiaraos.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
But the rat itself was surely born here, in the Valley, begotten of that species of teenagers caroming through the malls in flocks and packs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024
“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
“Yet not so poor,” the other replied politely, “for the women of your house do you credit, and you have begotten five healthy sons.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
For the geo-genealogy that’s begetting the fractious Palos Verdes Peninsula of today, I consulted Kevin Coffey, a lecturer in earth, planetary, and space sciences at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
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
Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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