originate
originated; originating; originates
Originate is a verb that means to start or create something. You can originate the idea of adding a fancy new coffee machine to your company's break room, and before long, your entire office could be happily drinking mocha lattes.
Originate is the place or point at which any new thing or idea starts. It usually doesn't end there, though. A carpet that originates in Turkey can travel all the way to an apartment in New York. A rumor can originate during first period, but by lunchtime it will have made its way around the entire high school.
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come into existence; take on form or shape“A new religious movement originated in that country”
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develop
be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
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resurge
rise again
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come forth, emerge
happen or occur as a result of something
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come, follow
to be the product or result
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swell, well up
come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
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head
take its rise
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break
come forth or begin from a state of latency
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become
come into existence
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develop
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bring into being
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begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.
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