begotten
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Its shrinking budget has begotten a shrinking member base, leading to an even smaller budget.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2024
Oedipus, having begat where he was begotten, took responsibility and blinded himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2020
He trusted the promise of John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019
Globetrotting has begotten congressional scrutiny and the media’s glare.
From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019
Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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