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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That such success sprung from a holiday snafu suggests that Brown had a grand plan on par with the Bond villains whom have since influenced the label’s highly successful 007 Collection. Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 16 May 2025 Whether numbers, systems of equations, derivations or geometric objects, everything should spring from a few basic assumptions. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025 At the nearest bus stop, passengers wait in front of that façade, and the scrawls seem to spring from their minds like cartoon speech that has burst free of its bubbles. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 May 2025 Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign by Michael Berry Sam Needleman ‘On the Brink of Erasure’ Tacita Dean’s mesmerizing, elegiac drawing and filmmaking spring from both broad exploration and acute focus. Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spring from

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“Spring from.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spring%20from. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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