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stem

noun as in stalk of plant

verb as in come from

verb as in prevent, stop

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The trial stems from the March 10, 2019 flight that went down six minutes after departing Addis Ababa for Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.

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But McVay said in retrospect that those problems stemmed more from the long-range situations he put the kickers in.

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It was the latest U.S. bid to win China’s help to stem a scourge that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

How much AMD’s earnings will move the stock remains to be seen, since so much of its recent momentum stems from business that’s farther out than the present day.

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These disagreements stem from radically different ways of viewing identity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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