provenance
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Almost 30,000 native trees of Irish provenance, such as oak, alder and rowan, have been planted on the 41-acre site which is situated at Lenamore Wood, near Gortin in Omagh.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Pinning down the drones’ provenance is made intentionally difficult.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Unlike the other artifacts with no traceable provenance, these short stories are bad.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
He also saw “pre-project metadata, hidden defined names, institutional data-terminal markers, real lender or counterparty names, irregular numeric precision, and other features that raised serious provenance questions,” the suit said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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