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Synonyms & Antonyms for genesis
Synonyms: Noun (1)
alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, onset, outset, start, threshold
Antonyms: Noun (1)
close, conclusion, end, ending, omega
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a book about the genesis of the civil rights movement was present at the meeting which was later considered the genesis of the new political movementRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
This was the genesis of The Everset, a furniture rental company Steinberg is launching today in New York City along with furniture retailer Jonathan Mitrani and designer Megan Hopp. — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, "Furniture rental space gains a new player with launch of The Everset," 30 July 2019 While their genesis was high-minded—the studs are reportedly inspired by details on Roman palazzo doors—the pretty-meets-punk look became so mainstream, entire brands existed just to create downmarket imitations. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "We’ve Gotta Have It: The 17 Items that Defined Fashion in the 2010s," 18 July 2019 The diagnosis: workplace revenge, which occurs more frequently than many realize and may have its genesis in the target’s actions. — Anchorage Daily News, "Be proactive when confronted with workplace revenge," 15 July 2019 And like the bloodshed in New Zealand, the violence in this case was not solely broadcast online — its genesis appears to have been rooted there. — Washington Post, "A teen popular on Instagram was killed. Now the gruesome photos are spreading across the web.," 15 July 2019 To tell the story of Kuriya @ Cherrity Bar is to unpack its genesis as an offshoot of the best ramen bar in the city. — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, "Review: Kuriya @ Cherrity Bar delivers Japanese ramen with San Antonio charm," 3 July 2019 The pallet recycling industry has grown into a monster business since its genesis in the ‘60s. — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al.com, "The secret life of a pallet: Exploring a booming Alabama business, its rustic-decor afterlife," 20 June 2019 Historians trace its genesis to the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, when gay people protested police harassment at a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village . — NBC News, "Age matters more than sexuality to U.S. presidential voters, poll finds," 10 June 2019 That internal furnace provides Earth's magnetic field and its geography on the whole—everything from foothills to volcanoes to earthquakes owe their genesis to heat at a tectonic level. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "To Understand How the Earth Formed, and How It Might Disappear, NASA Is Drilling on Mars," 21 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'genesis.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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