in origin

idiom

—used to refer to a source or cause

The English word "rendezvous" is French in origin.

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In fact, over 75% of emerging human pathogens are zoonotic in origin. —

Crystal Heath and Gene Baur, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024 According to a study published in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology in September, the stone was not North American in origin. —

Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024 The distinction in origin matters little if no human ever looks at the raw data, and an AI system can recognize patterns in all of the data at once. —

Anthony Vinci, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2020 The contents seemed to be Asian in origin: intricate lacquered screens and bolts of cloth, thousands of slender rattan canes, and an extraordinary array of porcelain, all preserved in the darkness of the ocean. —

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for in origin