begot
Example Sentences
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“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
This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Likewise, expectations are heavy on Dunn, 26, after a breakout 14-goal and team-high 50-assist season begot a four-year, $29.4 million extension.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Over his career, the elder Mr. Stuckey’s 100 ideas a day begot a billboard company, a timber business, a trucking business and a car dealership, among others.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 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
