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
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
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
The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
From "1984" by George Orwell
But agent work begets human work: Onboarding customers at a faster clip means needing to respond to more customer requests, for example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
Worse: The tiny microphone begets equally small questions.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Risk begets risk — for young men as much as anyone.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
Life begets life begets life begets life begets life.”
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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
Warring factions within cities and between cities begat more scandals, more corruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 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
This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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
I got into comedy because I just loved doing it and that begot so much else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
Losing Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong, Ryan Donato and Carson Soucy is tough for a team where depth begot success.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
A convoluted conclusion, begot by an unconvincing change of heart, obliterates any chance of “Hunt” offering the clarity it needs to be entertaining.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
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
“The creative inspiration people got from cheese boards has begotten creative inspiration for a lot of things,” she says.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020
Globetrotting has begotten congressional scrutiny and the media’s glare.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019
The concept started in Los Angeles in 2012 and has since begotten showcases around the world, along with a monthly incarnation in Brooklyn.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
“Yet not so poor,” the other replied politely, “for the women of your house do you credit, and you have begotten five healthy sons.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
“These dynamics are essentially similar to a bank run: vulnerability begetting more vulnerability,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
The son of a goddess and a prince, he carried the ancestral burden of begetting a lineage of rulers in a foreign land.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2022
What I leave unaddressed — persistent pain, nagging uncertainty about a diagnosis, a social dilemma — tends to stay that way, begetting yet another visit.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2019
Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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