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beget

[bih-get] / bɪˈgɛt /


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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

Rather than allow mistake to beget mistake, as they so often did across the autumn, Ireland moved slowly through the gears before finally reaching cruising speed.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025

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

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2023

I wished I too had some kind of scar that would beget Baba’s sympathy.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini




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