beget
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“And selling could beget selling. It could be a waterfall event.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In general, strong stock markets beget IPO booms, and cycles can be long-lasting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
These downturns would create cracks in anyone’s self-esteem, but for people with NPD, the newly created cognitive dissonance between their self-image and the setback can beget a personality crisis.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
Rams wrapped in theremo- gene beget no lambs.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
In markets, strength often begets more strength, or, as technicians like to say, trends once in motion tend to remain that way more likely than they are to reverse.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Risk begets risk — for young men as much as anyone.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
It’s unclear whether filmed Broadway shows like “Merrily” can become the new concert film, but as always in showbiz, success begets success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
The need to protect past lies begets new lies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Don’t they know that regret begets regret begets regret?
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor.
From Salon ● May 10, 2025
Yet that begat one of the greatest turnarounds in league history, which started with the hiring of Will Kuntz as senior vice-president of player personnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
But that broken leg also begat the greatest comeback in NFL history and led to one of the gifts Smith gave Washington football fans — a rare Thanksgiving Day win over the Dallas Cowboys.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Buffett and his music — and the empire they begat — became pivotal figures in that claiming and invention.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
I don’t know how they begat Saint Sarah and her bubbliciousness.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Then a funny thing happened after I retired and began winnowing my stuff in earnest: The resulting tidiness begot more tidiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
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
Macfadyen delivers a different version of a doofy husband in this terrific three-part British docudrama mini-series about the creation of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and the cheating scandal it begot.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2023
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
How great if this type of four-quadrant filmmaking didn’t have to cosplay as a begotten relic — if it could take courage from these dinosaurs and thrive in our modern times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024
Investment has begotten investment and driven philanthropic interest, with Gray’s organization poised to help build a $54 million, 219-unit affordable-housing complex.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
He trusted the promise of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
For the geo-genealogy that’s begetting the fractious Palos Verdes Peninsula of today, I consulted Kevin Coffey, a lecturer in earth, planetary, and space sciences at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
That trend could itself be causing a vicious cycle of fewer children begetting fewer children, said Takuya Hoshino, senior economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023
Some executives argue that zeal over returning to the office can build on itself, with occupants begetting more occupants.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
He was proud of their shame because it meant that he had the ability of begetting refined children.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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