begats
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of begats
Noun plural use of begat
Example Sentences
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Think about how the whole thing is run by statistically the best manager in baseball history — Dave Roberts — and the word becomes a reality that begats a question.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025
Perhaps, too, Jackie Robinson served as an example for a series of begats.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019
There is no more lineage-obsessed sport than horse racing, and serious aficionados know their begats better than Bible scholars.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up.
From Time Magazine Archive
She read a page of the introduction to Shakespeare and a page of begats from the Bible.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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