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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,” the Capital Alpha analysts wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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

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

“More often than not, strength begets strength,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Magalon and Santiago link lower budgets to more artistic freedom, which begets better films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

Don’t they know that regret begets regret begets regret?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

Buffett and his music — and the empire they begat — became pivotal figures in that claiming and invention.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

But who begat you is a question with an answer only someone else can tell you.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

Shepherd’s day job is producing documentaries for the BBC, including the 10-part radio series that begot this book.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2022

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

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

The Bible, reportedly the most translated book of all time, has begotten not only the longest-running debates about translation, including the endless war between fidelity and felicity, but also some notable misconceptions.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2018

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

“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

Some executives argue that zeal over returning to the office can build on itself, with occupants begetting more occupants.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

He was proud of their shame because it meant that he had the ability of begetting refined children.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith