creation
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David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Parks’s library isolation gave her the gift of self-reflection and creation — going the way your blood beats, to riff on James Baldwin’s advice about living truthfully.
—Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
The answer came in the creation of the Football, the president’s emergency satchel.
—Annie Jacobsen, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
This task force will consist of seven to 11 members and remain active for one calendar year following the date of its creation, the release says.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
But as Apple, Google, and other companies race to bring their AI creations onto our phones, we’re being presented with an opportunity to use these next-gen digital assistants to correct one of our inherent human flaws: poor memory.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
New party creation is achieved state-by-state, so West may be able to gain access in one place as an independent and another place as a member of the Justice for All Party or even affiliated with other small parties.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
Images that show 'satanism in public schools' are digital creations
Though the woman was correct in noting the chain celebrated the Mercury retrograde in 2022 by offering free tarot card readings, there's no evidence McDonald's ever sold any demonic merchandise.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
Cynthia Huang Wang tried her hand in full-time content creation after she was laid off from her brand marketing job in February 2023.
—Brooke Schultz, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Middle English creacion, borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin creātiōn-, creātiō "something brought into existence," going back to Latin, "act of begetting," from creāre "to beget, give birth to, create entry 1" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of action nouns
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Creation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creation. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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