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How to pronounce “originate”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of originate with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me
originate from? New York. And so I
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
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How to pronounce originate
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me

originate from? New York. And so I
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
- (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). [from 18th c.]
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete, rare, with 'upon') Founded on, having its origin in (something).
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