origin

The European origin of the hypothesis has been used to blame Europe in part for the Rwandan genocide, a position held by anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani, whose son is mayor of New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Our nations of origin may be separated by distance, language and even culture, but on this night, Los Angeles was a city where we all came together as one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

But an even bigger reason is that we continue to know relatively little about its origin.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Tracking the origin of an outbreak in the US that causes explosive diarrhoea has proved a challenge for public health experts searching for answers about how it started - and how it's spreading.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Most people’s understanding of what it means to be an American is founded upon such tales, which together form a myth-like origin story.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Common assumptions about the origins of a concept like free will could be exposed to thorough scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The findings, published in Nature, clarify the population's origins, family relationships, and social organization.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

After spending the early 2000s as an engineer in Silicon Valley, he observed that the memory industry was slowly migrating away from its U.S. origins to Japan, then Korea and Taiwan.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Popular around my firehouse is a line directly cribbed from its military origins: “Death smiles at everyone. Firefighters smile back.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

It sees the American Revolution as an incipient national movement with deep, if latent, origins in the colonial era.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis