originator
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Soboroff asked the mayor if he’d met the originator of the phrase.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Smith co-founded mortgage originator First National Financial in 1988.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
The originator of the concept, Snapchat, started out as a simple photo-sharing app that promised to consign your private visual messages after just a few seconds each.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2024
I worried at times that my crocus was too elaborate a bloom, not a common perennial but a hothouse flower, a hybrid named by its originator like a rose.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Specifically, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two massive government-sponsored mortgage buyers, are updating the credit-score models used for the loans they’ll accept from originators who lend to home buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 25, 2026
Rocket, one of the largest U.S. mortgage originators, entered the listings space in earnest with its purchase of Redfin, a brokerage and listings portal, in 2025.
From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026
The Wellermen were the originators of the sea shanty trend on TikTok, with their versions of Misty Mountain, Nancy Mulligan and Hoist the Colours racking up billions of views.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
And with more of the transaction happening digitally, some originators are getting very good at capturing the refinancing of a servicing customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
They already were short the stocks of mortgage originators and the home builders.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
