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[jen-uh-sis] / ˈdʒɛn ə sɪs /


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“To me, that’s kind of the genesis of what would ultimately lead him to become an entrepreneur.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

A bewitching survey looks at the unexpected, centuries-old genesis of the divination cards, and the ways they endured and changed in the modern era.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

The genesis of their idea was to connect and really bring something powerful and important to society and people.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

James Whale’s 1935 freakquel, “Bride of Frankenstein,” imagined the companion briefly alive, sporting a white-streaked, electric-shocked bouffant before being killed by the Monster moments after her genesis.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

Indeed, if you coupled the genesis of spontaneous mutants—the giant-leaved Oenothera, say—with natural selection, then Darwin’s relentless engine was automatically set in motion.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Morris Trophy started 44 years ago, the geneses of Traci Morris Drake, who first got then-Washington coach Don James on board with the idea before pitching it to the rest of the conference.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2024

His idea of evolution also epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century with its search everywhere for geneses and transformations—in religion, philology, geology, biology.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various




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