verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Poverty begets crime.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we all know, killings beget more killings.
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Forests beget trees; we know that.
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In the long term, violence begets violence.
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The early gains from the stock market rally begot a feeling of invincibility.
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Thus replication begets replication, until the costs of these counterproductive activities finally bring the organization to a long-delayed breaking point.