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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

The disaster beget $53 billion in losses, with insurers covering around $40 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

“If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.”

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… atrocities beget atrocities.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2023

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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