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beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


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“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,” Capital Alpha said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

In terms of assessing longevity, years beget more years.

From Slate Jun. 14, 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

The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Intrigue begets further intrigue, and the reader struggles to keep up with a swirl of subplots involving Sweety’s assistant, a missing computer, blackmail, gangsters and corrupt politicians.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 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

We learn how Iceland’s glaciers, essentially rivers of varying pace, begat their unique ecosystems, but also how they provided the breathtaking terrain upon which Magnason’s grandparents Hulda and Árni fell in love.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.

From Salon May 10, 2025

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

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

I don’t know how they begat Saint Sarah and her bubbliciousness.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

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

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

How great if this type of four-quadrant filmmaking didn’t have to cosplay as a begotten relic — if it could take courage from these dinosaurs and thrive in our modern times.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

The work’s structure seems to have organically arisen from artists responding to one another, inspiration begetting inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 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

It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals, and the Neanderthals evolving into us.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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