begat

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • May 31, 2025

That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 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

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

In fact, rather than Pythagoras’s triangle, there was a circle, or a cycle, at work: form begat information, and then information begat form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee