spring from
phrasal verb
sprang from or sprung from; sprung from; springing from; springs from
informal
: to start from or be caused by (something)
The idea sprang from a dream I had.
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Mineral-rich waters that spring from the nearby Volcán de Tequila run directly through El Tequileño’s distillery and play an irreplaceable role in the brand’s smooth expressions.
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Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.
—David Schurman Wallace, The New York Review of Books, 18 Sep. 2025
About half a mile west, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle springs from the vision of his son, Alexander Stirling Calder.
—Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
All this plays out against the Borg’s family home in Oslo, an old-world cottage that looks sprung from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, but holding generations of memories and trauma, embedded in its walls.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
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Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Marguerite Young’s cult novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling springs from the supposedly mundane diners and bus depots of Young’s native Indiana, but eschews any stable sense of reality.
—David Schurman Wallace, The New York Review of Books, 18 Sep. 2025
About half a mile west, the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle springs from the vision of his son, Alexander Stirling Calder.
—Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
All this plays out against the Borg’s family home in Oslo, an old-world cottage that looks sprung from a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, but holding generations of memories and trauma, embedded in its walls.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Spring from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spring%20from. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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