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stemmed

verb as in come from

verb as in prevent, stop

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The divergence stemmed from differing views on how restrictive current policy is.

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"Is This Thing On?" stemmed from "a chance encounter" between Bishop and Arnett on a barge in Amsterdam, with the actor inspired by hearing the comedian's life-story.

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Other attendees said the issue with the game stemmed from conflict over the rules.

Those stemmed from the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, which uncovered dozens of boxes of highly classified documents stored in insecure settings.

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It’s revealed that his cynical nature stemmed from his days as an idealistic young pediatric surgeon whose patient was lost when an organ transplant intended for the child instead was given to another through favoritism.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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