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[awr-i-jin, or-] / ˈɔr ɪ dʒɪn, ˈɒr- /




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It’s an origin story for Scooby and his gang.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

However, if an e-moto doesn’t have a manufacturer’s certificate of origin saying it is made for the road—and many don’t—it can’t be registered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Equatorial Guinea has then held them without charge before deporting them to their countries of origin.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

She told BBC News in 2001: "We've always said it's about the music... an event that celebrates music of black origin doesn't seek to separate artists according to skin colour".

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

By actual count, there are more words of classical than of Anglo-Saxon origin in the English vocabulary,—probably two and a half times as many of the former as of the latter.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton




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