The Clue
Sources (7 letter answer)
The Answer
ORIGINS
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Notes
The answer ORIGINS is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2100 puzzles.
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Definition
ORIGIN as a noun:
1. (beginning, origin, root, rootage, source) = the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
2. (origin, descent, extraction) = properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
3. (origin, origination, inception) = an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
5. (lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock) = the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"