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begets

verb

present tense third-person singular of beget

as in creates

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) one change in the natural environment will beget others

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as in produces

to become the father of the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

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Recent Examples of begets Clandestine action begets retribution, which begets chaos — the only status quo Central Intelligence has ever known. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026 If interest begets debt, and debt begets interest, eventually debt will spin out of control. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 Pasteur’s experiment implied that being alive is hereditary—life, not not-life, begets life. — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026 Constant vigilance against the presence of AI inevitably begets cynicism and threatens to corrode the teacher-student relationship that is at the heart of education. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026 That’s because success begets imitators eager to compete away profits. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Distance begets latency; each kilometer of satellite separation adds more microseconds of latency, and those microseconds matter. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026 But one of the hardest yet most common lessons investors learn is that strength often begets more strength. — Jay Woods, CNBC, 4 June 2026 And rhetoric, it could be said, begets more rhetoric. — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

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Kolbe’s distinctive use of language brings to life this period’s wonders and difficulties, and her maximalist approach to metaphor creates many energetic images.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
That, in turn, creates incentives to manage the firm carefully with an eye toward long-term survival.

— Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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Alexandra Magistro executive produces for Red Room Pictures alongside Topher Merrill and John Baden executive produce for Morgan Creek Entertainment.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
The technique produces individual hydrogen atoms under mild conditions, addressing a long-standing challenge in preparing and using these reactive particles.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of produces

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An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked nearly 17,000 Shigella samples, which causes Shigellosis, which and can bring on diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps, collected between 2011 and 2023.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of causes

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Molluscum is caused by a virus and spawns the pimple-like bumps.

— Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026
But the software wrapped around it reinserts the objective on every turn, stores progress to a file, spawns subagents, retries on failure, and keeps going until a verifier says the task is done.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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Haider and colleagues, reviewing hair transplant tourism for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2025, estimated that the Turkish market alone generates around one billion US dollars a year.

— William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Radialc ontent generates approximately 5 billion streaming hours annually.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of generates

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Not everyone gets a godparent like Charlie, Lou, Sheldon, or Janice.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
The lounge When leaving through JFK’s Terminal 7, Condor Business Class gets you access to the Horizons Lounge which is perfectly nice with a small spread of complimentary hot food and a full bar.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of gets

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Since 2025, a Disney+ deal brings Spanish subscribers 300-plus hours annually from Atresmedia’s Atresplayer.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Jo, who is still desperately trying to earn her orange back, and more power to her, brings Alexis over to Heather for another pointless conversation.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of brings

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The sugar, found in most mammals but not in humans, prompts the antibodies that trigger an allergic reaction.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
This is particularly important because AI models quickly become familiar with how a user prompts the model and interprets its output, and the model presents information according to these patterns.

— Monideepa Tarafdar, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026

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