Sentence examples for root of the term from inspiring English sources

As McDonough notes, the Latin root of the term competition is 'competere': meaning, to "strive together".

The Anthropocene concept, as the root of the term suggests, rests on the notion that human activity has created a new version of an old planet.

Old Nichol Street, where I live, is said to be the root of the term "nicked", due to the number of criminals working around here.

(Here, the superscript "1/2" means that the square root of the term in parentheses is being taken). This is the formula we will use for our back of the envelope estimate.

Earlier analyses were typically restricted to questions about the economic relations of the household, the "oikos" (which is the root of the term "economics").

The Sanskrit etymological root of the term syād is "perhaps" or "maybe", but in the context of syādvāda it means "in some ways" or "from some perspective".

Barry Popik, an amateur etymologist who researched the roots of the term "The Big Apple," also received an unexpected message from the same e-mail address.

Some trace the roots of the term back to the Israel-Palestine conflict, while the fashionable military variant ("boots on the ground") apparently emerged around 1980.

Whether Palin was, or was not, aware of the theological roots of the term she used, she selected a phrase that has become commonplace.

At the time, I did some reporting on the roots of the term, and I asked Mr. Shapiro of Yale to dig into it.

While The Huffington Post noted the problematic nature of cultural appropriation and the offensive roots of the term "Eskimo," Bristol Palin took to her Patheos blog to defend Jenner. .