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beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


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Many fear that the strategy of taking down top leaders will only beget more fighting.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

“Sales are going beget sales here for a little bit until the weaker hands are shaken out of this market,” Haworth said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

But finding yourself in a bind necessitates clever solutions, and Park’s already dark comedy turns jet-black as the director reveals that stress can beget new talents.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

That strain beget a slump, Pages batting .159 through the season’s first three weeks.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025

But while this description of the mechanism of heredity solved Mendel’s question—how does like beget like?—it failed to solve Darwin's converse riddle: How does like beget unlike?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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