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How to pronounce beget in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire
Type of create, make
Derivation begetter

Examples of beget

beget
Peripheral vascular disease and coronary disease beget congestive heart failure.
From the businessweek.com
Bad scripts beget bad movies, even when four Academy Award winners are involved.
From the washingtonpost.com
The average taxpayer believes that, yes, hard times can beget need for any of us.
From the newsobserver.com
Reason, the thinking went, would beget results that most people could get behind.
From the newsweek.com
Besides ethereal beings when having an affair with humans beget human children.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Small hypocrisies beget larger ones, not least because of the subterfuge involved.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Great swimmers beget great swimmers, so all that competition made them all faster.
From the news-journalonline.com
One company begets two and those two companies beget four, and so on and so forth.
From the avc.com
It's true that young, unmarried women who beget don't exactly thrive economically.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them"
  • To cause; to produce; To procreate; to father (rarely: to mother); to get with child
  • To give birth to; create