not original

Example Sentences

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After they moved in, neighbors revealed the house was not original to the site.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.

From Salon • May 25, 2025

There will be more of them, and noisy ones too, with their plans, again not original, to economically turbo charge the areas around and between Oxford and Cambridge.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

The court denied requests by defense lawyers to call witnesses, and prosecutors shared only purported transcripts, but not original audio recordings, from surveillance of the alleged plotters.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The new people are not original in this.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates