spawned

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The photo, which included a label saying it was made with AI, spawned more AI-generated images and videos of a buff Rogers and other politicians with enlarged muscles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026

Monty Norman's surf guitar riff and John Barry's sweeping orchestral scores spawned an entire genre of spy music – full of minor key suspense and piercing stabs of trumpet.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Officials now have the unenviable task of euthanising the creepy-crawlies, an insect so hardy it spawned an urban legend they could survive a nuclear blast.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

All that scientists know is the cosmos was spawned from nothing, and will return to the nothing from whence it came.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife