begats

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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

Here is where it starts to read like the “begats” in the Bible: The Southern Pacific pretty obviously wanted a ready-made train system, not a trolley system.

From Los Angeles Times

And while much of what the man born Richard Wayne Penniman in Macon, Ga., laid claim to had roots deep in African-American culture, his genius was to position himself like a throw-down ball queen decimating the competition as he played the dozens, naming himself the originator, the basis of all the begats.

From New York Times

Matt Tyrnauer’s absorbing documentary about the notorious New York fixer and mentor to Donald Trump, acts as a kind of cinematic begats, ostensibly profiling a man who may be long gone, but whose impulses and pursuit of power live on through his most famous protege.

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times