beget

“And selling could beget selling. It could be a waterfall event.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

In terms of assessing longevity, years beget more years.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Society’s hatred, the novel suggests, begets a destructive self-hatred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

“More often than not, strength begets strength,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Magalon and Santiago link lower budgets to more artistic freedom, which begets better films.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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

Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

Devastation begat devastation, as the ecological dominoes began to fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

He expanded his herd further that year, adding Beatrice and Benito, who begat Mellie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024

This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

“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

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

Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024

Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

“The creative inspiration people got from cheese boards has begotten creative inspiration for a lot of things,” she says.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020

Globetrotting has begotten congressional scrutiny and the media’s glare.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019

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

“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The work’s structure seems to have organically arisen from artists responding to one another, inspiration begetting inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

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

Lies were told and then exposed, begetting more lies to explain away the initial deceptions.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer