- present tense form of originate (3rd person singular).
originates
Example Sentences
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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 term originates in the 1990s, but its spirit goes further back—at least to British computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised what became known as the Turing test.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Nearly all of FLAG’s revenue originates from individual donors, and most of that money is raised through a direct-mail sweepstakes operation that offers the chance to win prizes, in one case $1,000,000.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
The information, oddly, originates from the regional director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
