common origin

collocation in English

meaningsofcommonandorigin

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common
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən/us
/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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origin
noun
uk
/ˈɒr.ɪ.dʒɪn/us
/ˈɔːr.ə.dʒɪn/
the beginning or cause ...
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(Definition ofcommonandoriginfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Coherence structures have acommonorigin.
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All my doubts have acommonorigin.
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Thecommonoriginand common history of selection, however, depend on common environmental effects.
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These similarities suggest that the two intrusions probably have acommonorigin.
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We have acommonorigin.
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They had acommonorigin.
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Very simply, the mostcommonoriginof this sort of process was the exposure of a social evil.
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Cognates are translation equivalents that have similar meaning and pronunciation and/or orthography because of acommonorigin.
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The fact that the two populations performed similarly in all biological aspects that were examined in this study suggests that they have acommonorigin.
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This observation strongly suggests acommonoriginin terms of marine sedimentary sequence, and according to us most of the differences between them result from the subsequent tectonism.
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Nocommonoriginof the recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered.
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Indeed, they had acommonorigin—trading, and defending themselves in doing so.
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All these things happen at once because of theircommonorigin.
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This indicates acommonorigin.
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The second point is that this theory is likely to provide a further criterion with which to determine the degree of relatedness between languages assumed to have acommonorigin.
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But as always in comparing the liturgical traditions of the two religions, parallels and similarities are often just that, and do not necessarily imply dependence or evencommonorigin.
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There is in many cases a kingship of race, acommonoriginand also a kinship in religion.
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This suggested that these elements had acommonorigin.
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There are three possibilities: convergence, borrowing, andcommonorigin.
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Genetic relatedness implies acommonoriginor proto-language.
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The two groups probably have acommonorigin.
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All share a common language and possibly acommonorigin.
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The mostcommonoriginis the gastrointestinal tract.
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One possibility is that they have acommonorigin.
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This is due to thecommonoriginof homeotic genes.
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