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Across the United States, a generation of young Americans of Indian and Pakistani origin — the children and grandchildren of immigrants — are using Punjabi music as a bridge back to their cultures.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
With diGenova, the man who created the case’s very origin story, they have their dream team in place.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026
It proved, he said, artistic expression was not exclusively human in origin.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Iranian ships also transfer oil from one ship to another at sea to conceal the origin of their cargo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
It was a name that protested its own origin: even though he had systematically demolished Darwin’s theory of pangenesis, de Vries paid his mentor a final homage.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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