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What does originate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To cause to be, to bring into existence; to produce, initiate. [from 17th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). [from 18th c.]
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Clearly, the Posse Comitatus Act did not originate from the prevailing opinion during the revolutionary period.
The tumor seemed to originate from the main mammary duct, given its close association with the nipple.
Consequently, as shown above, all the diamond pythons we are keeping and breeding now originate from the Gosford area.
Sinistral clades also did not originate in the less planktonically productive insular Indo-West Pacific and Caribbean.
Comets originate in the Oort Cloud, which lies beyond the orbit of the outermost planet.
Micronuclei may originate from acentric chromosome fragments or whole chromosomes lagging behind during cell division.

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