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 • 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

She read a page of the introduction to Shakespeare and a page of begats from the Bible.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith