begot
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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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