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The phrase "almost come from" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to indicate a near origin or source, but it is better to clarify the meaning.
Example: "The idea for the project almost comes from a similar initiative we saw last year."
Alternatives: "nearly originates from" or "is derived from almost".
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The director Jonathan Glazer, making his feature debut here, devises for them a setting that could almost come from the theatre, and Louis Mellis and David Scinto's script has a David Mamet-like quality of harshness and snap.
And the brazenness of a prime minister who openly proclaims his plans for tax cuts at the expense of maintaining decent levels of public spending could almost come from the dialogue of the recent film Riot Club, which, in somewhat exaggerated form, indicates upper class contempt for the "lower orders".
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"There's an atmosphere that almost comes from the subconscious.
"There is an earnestness that almost comes from a naïve vantage point," Walker says.
Clyde, another bass player, who almost came from Louisiana, seems to have informed a dozen songs.
Here, though, the impulse almost comes from the war's epicenter.
In fact, it took the country some time to warm to Lincoln; his popularity almost came from the inside out.
So the oil produced almost comes from this area.
Revolutionaries almost never come from the suffering classes.
Of the calories in broccoli, almost half come from protein.
Re-reading "East Coker", I find whole passages that could almost have come from him.
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