Sentence examples for origin means from inspiring English sources

The word, of Scandinavian origin, means "miserly" and has nothing to do with the similar-sounding racial slur.

The emphasis on national origin means that international co-productions (like "The Motorcycle Diaries") tend to fall by the wayside.

Complicating matters further, the inevitability of unanticipated developments, whether homegrown or external in origin, means that course corrections often are needed.

It was settled by the Dutch in 1683; its name, of Wappinger Indian origin, means "reed-covered lodge by the little water place".

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Paula Tumayshu Dow -- her middle name, of American Indian origin, means "land on fire" -- was born in Philadelphia, but unlike most people from there, she prefers the New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles when it comes to pro football.

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Arnold Robinson, a spokesman for Mr. Cruise, said the name, of Hebrew origin, meant princess, or, in Persian, red rose.

That standard inflation rate – combined with the fact that any immigrant nation brings a certain febrile intensity to questions of origin – meant it was sensible to be braced for a bit of gush from the start.

During 2002 2014, we detected 90 locally hatched Savannah sparrows and 129 locally hatched bobolinks breeding as adults near their places of origin (mean ± SD dispersal distances: Savannah sparrows: 917 ± 851 m; bobolinks: 1251 ± 839 m).

This range is, however, for cretins of European ethnic origin (mean of 1,300 ml in unaffected individuals).