originations

noun

plural of origination
1
as in productions

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as in commencements

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for originations
  1. productions
  2. commencements
  3. innovations
  4. beginnings
  5. generations
  6. initiations
  7. starts
  8. origins
Noun
  • The musical continues Disney Theatrical Group’s longstanding relationship with LW Theatres’ Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which has hosted the company’s productions since the venue reopened following a restoration completed in 2021.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • First steps Growing up in a small town some 80 miles north of Toronto, Park became interested in acting in high school and found opportunities on productions shooting locally.
    — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of productions
Noun
  • The students booing artificial intelligence at commencements across the country are not just worried about jobs.
    — Mark Bardeen Andrejevic, Washington Post, 10 July 2026
  • Recent Harvard commencements have grown much more political.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Definition of commencements
Noun
  • In a place where the past is fiercely preserved, the most ingenious innovations are the ones that don’t announce their arrival.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The American supermarket, with its endless array of products and innovations like the shopping cart and barcodes, has achieved an almost mythical status around the world.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of innovations
Noun
  • This is the story of a 73-year old company that's had a wild, transatlantic ride from its beginnings as a plumbing supply business in Virginia.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Hailing from humble beginnings in Greenwood, South Carolina, his experiences with football have always been centered around doing the impossible – dreams his father put in his head at an early age.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of beginnings
Noun
  • Future generations not only had to make up these missing deposits but also the massive investment earnings that could have been achieved.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • For generations, the property was owned by the Schilling family.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of generations
Noun
  • Plus, quiet periods are ending for banks that worked on last month’s blockbuster IPO, so we’re met with a flood of analyst initiations.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But some like the Kimbell’s have eyes and other piercings cut into them and used likely as part of initiations or the end of a ritual.
    — James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Nov. 2025
Definition of initiations
Noun
  • Amid Pride Park’s sea of black seats, there’s no real sense of where one stand ends and the next starts.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The rookie left-hander had lost his previous two starts, giving up 11 runs in 9 1/3 innings.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of starts
Noun
  • However, the notion of the emperor’s divine origins strengthened during the Meiji era, when the concept of State Shinto arose.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Gittelsohn, a painter who attended the now-shuttered San Francisco Art Institute in the 1970s, located across the street from the couple’s home, reached out to about 50 scholars and art experts about the origins of the bust.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of origins
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