How to Use provenance in a Sentence

provenance

noun

• Has anyone traced the provenances of these paintings?
• The artifact is of unknown provenance.
• The first problem is the provenance of the sky disk itself.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2021
• Its provenance is a bit of a mystery, and the sparkler has been rarely seen since.
  — Janine Henni, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
• The provenance of the bearing pads is deeper in the supply chain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021
• Of course, single malt is not the provenance of Scotland alone.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2022
• There is some mystery surrounding the provenance of Princess Anne’s copy of the brooch.
  — Jennifer Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
• Throughout the art world, the provenance of certain pieces is always top of mind.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2023
• But the provenance of some of the more alarmist Biden-is-feeble memes, many of them built on raw footage of a few stumbles, is murky.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• In the wider scope of history, the ponytail’s precise provenance is a bit hazy.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 27 June 2023
• Once mainly the provenance of the US, killer drones have now spread widely to both state and non-state actors.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
• The provenance of the object, the officials said, is still unknown.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• In the front seat is William, an assistant at CAA whose provenance is a bit of a mystery.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• Spencer contacted experts around the world in a bid to find out more about its provenance.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
• The agreement comes just months after the Met announced a push to hire more provenance researchers.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Most luthiers are wise to this and many strive to be mindful of the provenance of their raw materials.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
• The provenance for its fine Benin plaque is incomplete.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• This seems very similar to the provenance of the concert stage today.
  — Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
• And by no means were all the sculptures mail-order pieces with no real provenance.
  — Caroline Spivack, Curbed, 27 May 2021
• The provenance of both Forbes and Allen could reasonably have been expected to add to the value of the letter.
  — New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2024
• The fact that most come via the resale market—and have murky provenance as a result—makes Waller even warier.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
• Yet there are no plaques or requests in the museum on the provenance of art stolen from Benin, a country in West Africa.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• For the metal wall sculpture, the lack of provenance greatly lowers the value.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2022
• But it’s the fiber’s provenance that makes this shirt (and all of Free Fly’s apparel) sustainable.
  — Rachel Walker, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Flags are priced based on size, quality, and provenance.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2022
• In this case, your Genta NFTs will serve as a record of ownership and proof of provenance for each design.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2021
• The provenance research is to be published on the foundation’s website.
  — Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Hubris is still the provenance of the arrogant assumption.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• To address this, news orgs want to find out what tools are out there to investigate a story’s provenance.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2024
• The Kebab conflict While the two countries are still at odds over the right to control how the döner kebab is made, its provenance isn’t as much of a dispute.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024