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begets

[ bih-gets ]

verb

  1. 3rd person singular present indicative of beget.


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That CO2 can beget further warming, and the fires can also speed up permafrost thaw, which could add more of another greenhouse gas, methane, to the atmosphere.

At the same time, there’s also a danger in going too long, which is that riding begets riding.

Over time, a turbulent, expanding structure called a supernova remnant forms, begetting a beautiful light show, tens of light-years across, that can persist in the sky for many thousands of years after the initial explosion.

But, as Google knows all too well, leadership begets scrutiny and spam and in January 2016, the Google Local team found itself having to respond publicly to a NY Times Article entitled “Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too.”

The old adage that wealth begets more wealth, I think that’s accurate.

Feeling begets feeling, and great feeling begets great feeling.

More begets more, and spending tends to stick at higher levels, which is why the phenomenon is known as “the flypaper effect.”

The ideology of too big to fail begets behemoth banks even bigger now than they were before the financial crisis.

Violence begets violence, and violence is destructive, and uncomfortable, and horrible, and he unravels.

Success begets success, and the lack of failure begets lack of failure.

Disdain of every reasonable objection begets that sublime victory of the vanquished which we call martyrdom.

Without himself having any shape, He begets shape whenever matter approaches Him.

This radiation exists, and this existence alone begets something else.

Thus the primary movement (of Intelligence) finds its goal in time, begets it, and by its activity informs its duration.

Civilization begets new needs and wants; opportunities for new invention are multiplying at a tremendous rate.

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