begot

Example Sentences

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I got into comedy because I just loved doing it and that begot so much else.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025

This inverted perception: Where status once begot the signifier, the signifier now begot the status.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

Likewise, expectations are heavy on Dunn, 26, after a breakout 14-goal and team-high 50-assist season begot a four-year, $29.4 million extension.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

His gets begot bigger gets — the most prominent being his 2002 profile of Johnny Carson in Esquire.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

In the meantime Lord Mantios begot Polypheides, the prophet, and Kleitos—famous name!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer