place of origin
noun phrase
: the place where something is made or created
The wine is named for its place of origin.
Examples of place of origin in a Sentence
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Faraway hydrophones then picked up the sound and mistook its place of origin.
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
In the film, Diop, who is French and of Senegalese descent, follows the 2021 repatriation of 26 artifacts from the Musée du quai Branly back to their place of origin, Dahomey, once a kingdom in the modern-day West African nation of Benin, which France had pillaged in the 1890s.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
Some countries, especially those with smaller economies, want genetic information tracked from its place of origin all the way to the final products.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Along with the beauty, variation and craftsmanship of these works, these visits raise discussions about how such items reached the U.S. and the need to consider lawful repatriation to their place of origin.
—Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 29 July 2024
Because the concentration of isotopes varies around the world, the makeup of isotopes in the butterflies’ wings can act like a geographical fingerprint, indicating their likely place of origin.
—Marta Musso, WIRED, 5 July 2024
The second part of the name often refers to the fighter’s place of origin.
—Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2017
In the paper’s supplementary materials, a brief history of kissing pinpointed South Asia as the place of origin and traced the first literary buss to 1500 B.C., when Vedic Sanskrit manuscripts were being transcribed from oral history.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
This nationalism is defined not by place of origin or color of skin but by one’s contributions to the well-being of the community.
—Børge Brende, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2020
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
In the film, Diop, who is French and of Senegalese descent, follows the 2021 repatriation of 26 artifacts from the Musée du quai Branly back to their place of origin, Dahomey, once a kingdom in the modern-day West African nation of Benin, which France had pillaged in the 1890s.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
Some countries, especially those with smaller economies, want genetic information tracked from its place of origin all the way to the final products.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Along with the beauty, variation and craftsmanship of these works, these visits raise discussions about how such items reached the U.S. and the need to consider lawful repatriation to their place of origin.
—Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 29 July 2024
Because the concentration of isotopes varies around the world, the makeup of isotopes in the butterflies’ wings can act like a geographical fingerprint, indicating their likely place of origin.
—Marta Musso, WIRED, 5 July 2024
The second part of the name often refers to the fighter’s place of origin.
—Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 14 July 2017
In the paper’s supplementary materials, a brief history of kissing pinpointed South Asia as the place of origin and traced the first literary buss to 1500 B.C., when Vedic Sanskrit manuscripts were being transcribed from oral history.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
This nationalism is defined not by place of origin or color of skin but by one’s contributions to the well-being of the community.
—Børge Brende, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2020
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“Place of origin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/place%20of%20origin. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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