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Example Sentences
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As with most holiday-related rituals, digging into the history of the yule log as a TV tradition dispels some of its mystical wonder, revealing its origin in desperate necessity.
From Salon
SoFiUSD expands the company’s crypto business from individual users to commercial partners—a notable move given the company’s origins as a consumer lender.
From Barron's
The team said the origins of these intact vessels are generally uncertain.
From Science Daily
The network uses old tankers that sometimes falsely run under a country’s flag, conduct ship-to-ship crude transfers to conceal its origin and turn off transponders that give up their locations.
One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
