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In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Many fear that the strategy of taking down top leaders will only beget more fighting.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

They are concerned warehouses will beget warehouses, eventually ending up in their backyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

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

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

Because technology begets more technology, the importance of an invention’s diffusion potentially exceeds the importance of the original invention.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Indian musicians began adapting their own classical music for steel guitar, and in Africa, the quest to replicate the glissando effect begat a local technique dubbed “Hauyani” after the word “Hawaiian.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

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

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

“I hadn’t understood, at the beginning, that public exposure begot more public exposure, that press begot more press, that parties begot more parties,” she tells us, of how the joys of attention began to curdle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

I got into comedy because I just loved doing it and that begot so much else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

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

Wins begot wins: He added staff, including veteran federal prosecutors, and hashed out arrangements with law enforcement allowing his agency to bring its own criminal cases in court, an unusual privilege.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 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

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

The concept started in Los Angeles in 2012 and has since begotten showcases around the world, along with a monthly incarnation in Brooklyn.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

Or, if begotten, to have fallen from the womb Straight into the grave, And to be smothered, unknowing, In the dirt of Hades.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

This is heartbreaking — it’s tragedy begetting more tragedy.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2020

What I leave unaddressed — persistent pain, nagging uncertainty about a diagnosis, a social dilemma — tends to stay that way, begetting yet another visit.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2019

Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate."

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie