not original
Example Sentences
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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
Still, even a dazzling “Wanderer” barely stands out from the competition if not original.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 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
She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
