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The traditional Greek name for the first and best-known book of the Bible is Genesis, meaning "origin". Genesis tells the stories of the creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, Abraham and his sons, and more—the stories that explain how the world and humanity were created, as well as much about how humanity, and especially the descendants of Abraham, relate to the rest of the world. Today we use genesis to refer to the creative beginnings of much smaller things, but never unimportant ones.
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
Writing on the seventieth anniversary of the war’s end, in the preface to his magisterial The German War (2015), Oxford’s Nicholas Stargardt described the book’s genesis a decade earlier, in 2005.
—Chris Doyle, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
The unpaved, unincorporated Florida streets, the communities that birthed the soul of modern music, the hood which is the genesis of pop culture.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2025
The genesis for This Oak House came four years ago, when Meyers-Shyer; her husband, the attorney Robby Koch; and their two young children moved into a historic Pennsylvania Dutch home in Los Angeles, which had belonged to her mother-in-law.
—Nadine Zylberberg, Air Mail, 29 Mar. 2025
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“Genesis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genesis. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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