originate

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Must invention remain exclusively human, or can autonomous computational systems genuinely originate ideas?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

Over the past decade, growing evidence has convinced many researchers that rare earthquakes do originate in the mantle, though they may occur about 100 times less frequently than crustal earthquakes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, outlined a plan Monday that would reduce the amount of money banks are required to set aside to originate and hold mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Because they originate from the same egg and sperm, they share exactly the same DNA, making forensic identification extremely difficult.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

While the College of Physicians assured everyone that yellow fever did not originate in the water, the majority of citizens felt otherwise.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy