begot

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.

Big investors begot bigger investors, and the list expanded to a roster of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Powell Jobs.

Anxiety begot depression, and there came a night when I just didn’t want to deal anymore.

And many people, from victims to the armed groups seeking a deal, view Petro’s plan with distrust begot by decades of violence and failed promises.

His gets begot bigger gets — the most prominent being his 2002 profile of Johnny Carson in Esquire.