beget

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

They are concerned warehouses will beget warehouses, eventually ending up in their backyard.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

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