How to Use point of origin in a Sentence

point of origin

noun phrase
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  • Berlant, the fire marshal, said the point of origin of the fire has been identified.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Yet, a point of origin that is often overlooked is Hoodoo.
    — Essence, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Otherwise, reunions are a chance to square up and meet others from a shared point of origin.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • The cause and point of origin of the fire is under investigation.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The beginning legs vary depending on the point of origin.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
  • One aspect that makes the Lacks case special is that the HeLa cell line bears her name, making all the research stemming from it traceable to her as the point of origin.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Last weekend, a flight from San Francisco to Denver had also struck a bird and returned to its point of origin.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Meteor showers take their name from the location of their point of origin.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Backscattering, meanwhile, refers to what occurs when signals such as sound waves reflect back to their point of origin.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The need to stash a room-size vehicle at its point of origin, its destination, and just about anywhere in between has become the primary shaper of cities.
    — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The idea, as always in artillery operations, is to launch a payload and then clear out of the area before an enemy can locate the projectile’s point of origin and respond.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Many of Africa's food staples and domesticated animals thus had to travel a long way from their point of origin, both inside and outside Africa.
    — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Investigators with the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives built a full-scale mock-up of the middle deck of the 75-foot vessel in their quest to determine the fire’s point of origin and cause.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The blaze appears to have originated in the garage, but the source and official point of origin are pending further investigation, police said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 May 2023
  • Investigators believe that the fire began in the garage, but police said the cause and point of origin are still being investigated by the Fire Safety Bureau.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • After completing some levels of the game, players also had to shoot a flare back toward their point of origin—a dead-reckoning test analogous to the pointing-to-out-of-sight-locations task.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Further observations will likely be needed to determine the sounds’ point of origin.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2023
  • This last journey echoed another royal passage, prompted by the death of a previous Elizabeth, that can reasonably be taken as a point of origin for the United Kingdom itself.
    — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023

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