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beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


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Baelor of all people knows the smallfolk would react poorly to their beloved prince letting injustice beget more injustice.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

“Sales are going beget sales here for a little bit until the weaker hands are shaken out of this market,” Haworth said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Rather than allow mistake to beget mistake, as they so often did across the autumn, Ireland moved slowly through the gears before finally reaching cruising speed.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

Maybe empty vengeance does beget more empty vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

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




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