begets

verb

present tense third-person singular of beget
1
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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2
as in produces
to become the father of the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

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Recent Examples of begets 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 Learning velocity is the only litmus test dimension where improvement begets more improvement. — Zixuan Zhang, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026 It was never supposed to be a character study about how trauma begets trauma. — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026 Magalon and Santiago link lower budgets to more artistic freedom, which begets better films. — Barry Levitt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026 Despite the contradiction, this strategy worked because elites are universally perceived as out of touch with the real world – with privileged and sheltered life experience that begets a sense of superiority. — Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026 But Le, no stranger to the restaurant industry, which often begets ingenuity, got creative. — Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for begets
  1. creates
  2. produces
  3. causes
  4. spawns
  5. generates
  6. gets
  7. brings
  8. prompts
Verb
  • The contact with the hot metal creates steam that instantly breaks down and lifts baked-on grease and food debris.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This urban concentration creates hidden local impacts, including wildly uneven regional carbon emissions depending on whether the local grid relies on fossil fuels or green energy.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of creates
Verb
  • However, unlike poison ivy, Virginia creeper plants typically produce five leaflets, while poison ivy only ever produces three.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The company, now called Vantor, produces imagery that can document troop movements on the battlefield, show stockpiles of weapons, and provide a window into damage after an attack.
    — Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of produces
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  • According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition causes a type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries in the lungs and the right side of the heart.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Ordinarily, the subtle tilt in the moon's orbit causes its shadow to pass just below, or above our planet, missing it entirely.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of causes
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  • 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
  • The average female lionfish spawns around 27,000 eggs every three days, so unsurprisingly, the species quickly spread throughout the Caribbean, up the East Coast and east to the Bahamas.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
Definition of spawns
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  • For context, the median private SaaS company generates about $141,000 of revenue per employee, while the leading AI-native companies are running at twenty times that or more.
    — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • For smaller threats around 100 meters wide, this subterranean 3-megaton explosion generates enough power to vaporize the asteroid into harmless space dust completely.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of generates
Verb
  • Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.
    — William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The group gets a lot of its money from leadership PACs, which are groups established by members of Congress to help support other candidates.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of gets
Verb
  • The latter is a very eccentric and memorable fighter who always brings tons of energy into the Octagon.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Tony Dalton brings impressive menace to a superficially affable sheriff, and Laura Donnelly strikes the perfect balance between femme fatale and innocent love interest.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of brings
Verb
  • This variant prompts the body to keep churning out Klotho at high levels, regardless of chronological age.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Warmer water naturally carries less oxygen, which prompts corals to move their cilia faster and faster, as if gasping for breath.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of prompts

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