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What is the verb for origin?

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originate
  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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  4. Examples:
    1. “All isolates of C. fulvum collected to date originate from commercially grown tomatoes.”
      “He begins the review in a fantasy world in which Darwin did not originate the concept of natural selection.”
      “Comets originate in the Oort Cloud, which lies beyond the orbit of the outermost planet.”
originates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of originate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When this originates from within the struggling work group, there is often greater commitment to the solution.”
      “The hair used in sheitls originates from India where women allegedly cut their hair during religious rituals involving idol worship.”
      “The lymph fluid originates from the interstitial fluid, the watery environment that surrounds the cells of our bodies.”
originateth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of originate
originatest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of originate
originated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of originate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It now looks as if leprosy originated in East Africa, and Europeans and North Africans took it to West Africa.”
      “Hip hop, a dance which originated among African Americans, has a loose, casual style that has swept the city.”
      “The idea originated with the Pope's blessing of Mussolini's troops on their way to conquer Ethiopia, Rastafari's spiritual homeland.”
originating
  1. present participle of originate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Both the foot and the parapodia are innervated by nerve trunks originating most often from the pedal ganglia.”
      “Plants were washed carefully out of soil and the individual adventitious roots originating from the stem base were removed for testing.”
      “Though originating in resource competition, the war is now heavily overlaid by race.”
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