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originate
[ uh-rij-uh-neyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise:
The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
- (of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to begin a scheduled run at a specified place:
This train originates at Philadelphia.
verb (used with object)
- to give origin or rise to; initiate; invent:
to originate a better method.
originate
/ əˈɪɪˌԱɪ /
verb
- to come or bring into being
- intr (of a bus, train, etc) to begin its journey at a specified point
Derived Forms
- ˌˈԲپDz, noun
- ˈˌԲٴǰ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ···Բ· [uh, -, rij, -, uh, -n, uh, -b, uh, l], adjective
- ·i·ԲtDz noun
- ·i·Բtǰ noun
- -·i·Բe adjective
- -·i·ԲiԲ adjective
- self-·i·ԲtDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of originate1
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Example Sentences
The judiciary should not accept incoherent justifications merely because they originate from the White House.
There's a bigger picture: India is downstream of China in the Brahmaputra basin, and the Indus originates in Tibet.
One part of it originated from the experiences I’ve had studying a species — the gray vireo — that most people have never heard of.
“Another important hope I have is that the insane woke ideology and extreme progressive thinking will completely disappear from the American scene and return home to Mars, where it likely originated,” Eagle added.
The annual meteor shower event will be most visible in April and is named after the constellation Lyra, the harp, located near the point in the sky where the Lyrids appear to originate.
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