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Recent Examples of beget The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen. Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 Execs at the major studios began throwing furniture metaphorically, angry that moviegoers no longer were sitting through their in-cinema trailers for future movies due to lengthy preshows — a very powerful piece of marketing as moviegoing begets more moviegoing. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025 The well-trodden path for Millennial filmmakers has most often been through the indie space, where a festival film begets larger budgets behind studio gates. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 17 July 2025 Today, the Trump administration spectates as Israel is busily remaking the region in ways that certainly advance American interests and may beget a better world altogether. Noah Rothman, National Review, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for beget
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  • The bad news is that there are already murmurs in Brussels about piecemeal, incremental measures – harmonizing certain national laws, creating yet another framework for EU member states to fuss over and interpret.
    Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The series is created, written, directed and executive produced by Levinson and produced in partnership with A24.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • There are videos flying around, with or without context; the US government is producing some, promoting others from random X accounts.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Midway through the fourth quarter, the 49ers produced a fourth-down stop from their own 35-yard line.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Knowing what causes a disease is often the first step for mitigation.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There are also concerns the delay will cause chaos, confusion and stress for Americans, some of whom have already started receiving notices that their premiums will skyrocket next year.
    Ali Swenson, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Bowie recently sired a calf there, making Fort Worth Zoo elephant matriarch Rasha a great-grandmother.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Newcastle are level with Everton in big chances created and, as my colleague Chris Waugh explained, have struggled with generating quality opportunities.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The device can also generate audio alerts warning drivers if there's a dog on a customer's property.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This is not even the first time in the past year that Tyler’s old material has resurfaced online, spawning a familiar ouroboros of online discourse, shrouded in the language of accountability and well-meaning politics, that mostly serves to feed the beast of online engagement.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Charismatic and successful military leaders like Douglas MacArthur, who refused to follow President Harry Truman’s orders during the Korean War, will always hold considerable power due to the prestige and dominance that militaries bring.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • His aspiration to be a country artist was what first brought the Texas native to Nashville, at age 19 in 1993.
    Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
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  • No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Regular vacuuming is an easy way to prevent carpet beetles from reproducing in your home.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Beget.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beget. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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