originate

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Encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram were also identified as key channels where disinformation can originate before spreading to mainstream platforms.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

According to the researchers, these signals likely originate from dynamic rock fracturing processes that take place before an eruption.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

Rome’s blinkered position on war didn’t originate with Pope Leo XIV.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

This proved such a hit—Wall Street would buy your loans, even if you would not!—that a new company, called B&C mortgage, was founded to do nothing but originate and sell.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis