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genesis

[jen-uh-sis] / ˈdʒɛn ə sɪs /


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The composition’s primitive lyrics seem to place its genesis much earlier, likely around the time of “With The Beatles” or “A Hard Day’s Night.”

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The first three sections—“Water and Dreams,” “Sensory Sea Life” and “Forces Behind the Forms”—evoke genesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

But with Mr. Dudamel embracing it anew on the quarter-century anniversary of the events that prompted its creation, the composer is once more pondering this harrowing work and its painful genesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The genesis of their idea was to connect and really bring something powerful and important to society and people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Organs and organisms might behave according to the laws of physics and chemistry—but the genesis of life itself could never be understood through these laws.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Morris Trophy started 44 years ago, the geneses of Traci Morris Drake, who first got then-Washington coach Don James on board with the idea before pitching it to the rest of the conference.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024

His idea of evolution also epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century with its search everywhere for geneses and transformations—in religion, philology, geology, biology.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various


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