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originations

noun

plural of origination
1
as in productions

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2
as in commencements

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  1. productions
  2. commencements
  3. innovations
  4. beginnings
  5. generations
  6. initiations
  7. starts
  8. origins
Noun
  • Although fewer than half of the productions analyzed were comedies, 80% used narcolepsy as a running gag.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Spain highlighted incentives, investment, talent and infrastructure, while Greece stressed using international productions to build local capacity and training.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 21 Sep. 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
  • But China’s leaders, facing their own domestic challenges and preoccupied with their own grip on power, may decide that imposing these innovations on the masses is simply too risky—for their own sake, if not for the sake of humanity.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Foam and Air Zoom innovations deliver the most significant weight savings, as a new formula of ZoomX foam features alongside an Air unit produced with a new manufacturing process.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of innovations
Noun
  • Despite their rural beginnings, spending time in downtown Atlanta was a big part of Shyretha and Mike’s adulthood.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The unraveling of a previous romantic relationship and the beginnings of her current love story with boyfriend and fellow country music artist Morgan Evans, inform her latest album.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of beginnings
Noun
  • Rebuild Albina is 1803’s first project, focusing on transforming current and future generations of the community through investments in education, place, culture and belonging in the Albina area.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • As cofounder and frontwoman of the Bags and the Alice Bag Band in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, the pioneering Chicana icon has served as inspiration for generations of women in rock music.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 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
  • Instant help is at hand for clubs that have made slow starts or didn't get all their business done in the transfer market.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The Democratic candidate for a Fort Worth state House seat is dipping out of the race less than a month before voting starts.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of starts
Noun
  • Also, its rolling olive oil cart, replete with its own menu describing the oils’ characteristics and origins, allows passengers to sample many.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The author recently spoke with David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour, about the origins of the Second Amendment.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of origins
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“Originations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/originations. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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