Words similar to begat

Example sentences for: begat

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The soap opera that begat Java deserved to be written as a novel.
Time also offers two other reasons why Hitler doesn't get the award: First, he was derivative of Lenin, who sort of "begat" him.
The '50s begat Happy Days ; the '60s, The Wonder Years ; the '70s, That '70s Show ; and the '80s, Freaks and Geeks . In 20 years, the 1990s will be distilled into a set of reductive clichés and processed into a TV sitcom.
The Oscars begat the Emmys, which begat the Cable Ace Awards, of which there are so many that any cable TV employee who actually attends the ceremony is entitled to leave in a snit if he or she doesn't win one.
It told the riveting story of how I--"perhaps the only self-proclaimed conservative journalist devoted to digging up stories rather than writing editorials," author of a best-selling attack on Anita Hill, and "the star reporter at the [ American ] Spectator"-- came to break the Troopergate story, and how Troopergate begat Paula Jones, and how Paula Jones begat Monica Lewinsky.