begets

present tense third-person singular of beget

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of begets 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 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
Verb
  • Lanterns wastes little time explaining this backstory ad nauseam and instead creates an immediately inviting dynamic between him and Hal, who comes to him demanding information on Manhunters.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Nobody likes an audit, but some oversight of activity creates confidence in the tax administration system.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Texatron produces this powerful field dynamically during the pulse itself, avoiding the need for massive static coils.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Farmers are reluctant to plant John Boelts grows vegetables, melons, durum wheat and other crops in Yuma, Arizona — a region that produces about 90% of leafy greens eaten in North America during the winter.
    Wufei Yu, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Economists once again think economic growth causes prices to rise.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Here's what insomnia is, what causes it and how it's typically treated.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • What’s more, Fox News is, like the rest of the cable-news sector, entering into a news cycle that often generates bigger audiences and more attention.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The Elena unit generates both heat and electricity using thermoelectric materials rather than moving steam turbines.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Some recalls, Eskin said, are made after companies’ routine testing catches a pathogen before anyone gets sick, while others involve outbreaks that are already underway and vary widely in size and severity.
    Dian Zhang, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
  • All cabins come with a firepit equipped with a grill grate and a picnic table, while upgrading to an outdoor suite gets you a tarp for shade lined with string lights and an extremely comfortable hammock.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Pratt brings the toughness of a wrestler onto the football field.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • All this disruption is coming in the lead-up to the Burning Man festival, which brings at its peak about 70,000 people to this region from all over the world.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Which then prompts the question of what type of discipline York could face, to which there is no one-to-one comparison.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Actor Clay Singer explained that premise prompts many questions.
    David Wade, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Begets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begets. Accessed 31 Aug. 2026.

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