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
Perhaps his most inventive idea was The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature, a version pepped up by the elimination of routine "begats" and archaic punctuation.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, thank you, Turner Ernest Buckminster. Now, if you’re done with your begats, I’ll go on ahead and shake your hand. But only if you’re done with the begats.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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