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  • past participle of beget.
  • past tense form of beget.
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begot

[bih-got] / bɪˈgɒt /




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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

Macfadyen delivers a different version of a doofy husband in this terrific three-part British docudrama mini-series about the creation of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and the cheating scandal it begot.

From New York Times May 29, 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




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