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originate
(redirected from originatively)

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originate from something
to come from something or some place. Did you originate from around here? I originated from a different area of the country. Some of our customs originate from old beliefs.

originate in something

to have had a beginning in something or some place. The river originates in the Andes Mountains. All your troubles originate in your lungs.

originate with someone or something

to have been started by someone, something, or during a time period or event. Did this policy originate with you? This idea originated with the committee.


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But consider for a moment the possibility of individuals who make basic decisions originatively, who select goals on an originative basis to be reinvestigated from time to time, and who adopt reviewable time-saving consistency patterns for standardized decisions.
tuition that usually we could have done otherwise indisputable, and wouldn't it obviously invite havoc into our lives if it were shown that people, in fact, are not originatively responsible for their behavior?
 
 
 
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