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begats

[bih-gats] / bɪˈgæts /




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Think about how the whole thing is run by statistically the best manager in baseball history — Dave Roberts — and the word becomes a reality that begats a question.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 2025

Perhaps, too, Jackie Robinson served as an example for a series of begats.

From New York Times Jan. 31, 2019

There is no more lineage-obsessed sport than horse racing, and serious aficionados know their begats better than Bible scholars.

From The New Yorker May 9, 2016

James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armaugh, decided in 1650 to determine when that day had occurred By calculating backward through all the biblical "begats" he figured that man was created in 4004 B.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Well, thank you, Turner Ernest Buckminster. Now, if you’re done with your begats, I’ll go on ahead and shake your hand. But only if you’re done with the begats.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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