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begotten

[bih-got-n] / bɪˈgɒt n /


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

From Salon Jan. 15, 2024

He trusted the promise of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2019

Recent decades have seen the museum organised by way of a stately procession, in which art movements and -isms were shown to have begotten other movements and -isms.

From The Guardian Oct. 16, 2019

The concept started in Los Angeles in 2012 and has since begotten showcases around the world, along with a monthly incarnation in Brooklyn.

From New York Times Oct. 18, 2018

Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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