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begetting 1 of 2

noun

as in procreation

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begetting

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verb

present participle of beget
1
as in creating
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 siring
to become the father of the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

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Recent Examples of begetting
Verb
To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026 Men begetting men is the story, a kind of immaculate cultural reproduction. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026 Both cases were fodder for a media firestorm, begetting nightly news specials and full-length documentaries. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for begetting
  1. procreation
  2. creating
  3. producing
  4. breeding
  5. causing
  6. spawning
  7. generation
  8. bringing
Noun
  • For those not familiar with the term, anti-natalism is a philosophical stance that views life as unacceptably full of suffering and procreation as a morally indefensible thing.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 July 2026
  • Sex makes its way into the story, first, from the mother’s perspective, as something to be avoided, and then as something that has to lead to procreation—and soon.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Definition of procreation
Verb
  • Without that discipline, organizations may end up creating more dashboards while preserving the same confusion.
    — Suresh Rajapakse, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The accords failed to stop the war, creating a frozen conflict with an ever-rising human toll that ultimately gave way to a full-scale invasion.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of creating
Verb
  • That target remains well beyond simply producing a larger processor.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Centuries before the internet infiltrated almost every aspect of daily life, Swift described how scientific and technological advances could lead to chronic distraction by producing an obsession with what could be rather than what is.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of producing
Noun
  • In 1970, when the wolves went nearly extinct in the wild, researchers captured five animals to establish a captive breeding program and bring them back from the brink.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Get rid of mosquito breeding sites by removing standing water around your home, including any containers that collect water; cleaning clogged roof gutters and treating retention ponds and drainage ditches with a mosquito larvicide.
    — Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of breeding
Verb
  • In July, nearly 4,000 megawatts of data center load suddenly dropped off the public grid in Northern Virginia, part of PJM, the largest regional transmission organization in the US, causing rapid spikes in grid frequency and voltage.
    — , CNBC, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Last year, immigration raids and tariffs hung over the celebration causing the event and mas bands to make adjustments.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of causing
Verb
  • The Dutch series, which premiered in 2010, was the first iteration of what would become a global singing-competition franchise, eventually spawning more than 150 adaptations around the world.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2026
  • In 2024 and 2025, the Bureau of Reclamation poured colder water through the dam’s river bypass tubes — a deeper outlet than the hydropower intakes — to prevent smallmouth bass from spawning there.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of spawning
Noun
  • On-site generation can reduce the amount of electricity that facilities need to draw from the grid while providing another source of power.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Reports of theater’s death have been exaggerated for generations.
    — Brian Beirne, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of generation
Verb
  • Like all the other participants in the beginning class, Bugumba also has an artistic bent, bringing a tumbler artistically decorated with cat logos and a phone case covered with feline pictures.
    — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Moon in your partnership zone squares Mercury in your domestic sphere, bringing competing needs into the same room.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026
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“Begetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begetting. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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