originate
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"The shows driving the industry forward largely originate on streaming platforms, yet the awards themselves were tethered to broadcast television," Proulx said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We wish to clarify that the document and information in question do not originate from official sources and are untrue," it said on Telegram.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The ban might lower prices temporarily in the U.S., particularly along the Gulf Coast, where most U.S. exports originate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Between approximately ages 50 and 75, the researchers found a sharp decline in microglia that originate during embryonic development.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Such diamonds are already known to exist in meteorites that have survived impact, and that may originate ultimately from comets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The Afrobeats genre, which originates from West Africa, has massively grown in recent years - dominating playlists and seeing artists, including Starr, featuring at major festivals such as Glastonbury.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Kelvin wave is essentially both a cause and a symptom of El Nino, said Amaya, and originates in waters near Indonesia when trade winds die down.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Researchers now want to determine exactly how much gas these winds remove over time and identify where within the disk the escaping material originates.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Fed could decide that much of the recent inflation pressure originates from energy and geopolitical disruption and leave rates unchanged.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
That someone who originates a new idea has a right to be acknowledged seems to us obvious, but this idea was fundamentally new.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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It also taps into nostalgia for the toy cars, which originated after English engineer Jack Odell designed the first model to comply with a 1952 British school rule requiring toys to fit inside a matchbox.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The musicians in front of you are not the humans who originated the music, and that matters because the energy is not the same .
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Dexy's Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland, who signed the letter, told BBC News NI that it "originated from an honest response to the situation on the Garvaghy Road".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The attacks originated from more than two dozen internet addresses in roughly a dozen countries, including the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
One possibility is that the Reston strain originated in Africa and flew to the Philippines on an airplane not long ago.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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They modeled particles originating from the brown dwarf and calculated how those particles would move under the gravitational influence of both objects.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The chemistry prize follows the physics prize, which on Tuesday honoured Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for groundbreaking work using Antarctic ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Systemiq research estimates that roughly a third of Himalayan glacier melt is driven by black carbon, much of it originating from brick kilns in the plains.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
In this role, the lawsuit said, she was responsible for originating and developing projects, attaching filmmakers, assembling financing and producing films from preproduction through delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and drifting to every end of her curved, warm-blooded universe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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