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hail from
Idioms and Phrases
Come from, originate from, as in He hails from Oklahoma . This term originally referred to the port from which a ship had sailed. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
If the sole predictor of who would become the next Pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost certain he would hail from Africa.
When the Argentine-born Pope Francis was chosen at the previous conclave in 2013, he became the first pontiff ever to hail from South America, a region that accounts for roughly 28% of the world's Catholics.
Irvine will be well represented this year as Cayden Wang from Crean Lutheran and Rishvanth Krishna, playing for University, both hail from the Orange County city.
But barred owls — which originally hail from the eastern U.S. — are more aggressive, less picky about food and reproduce faster, allowing them to outcompete their fellow raptors.
Most of our imported eggs hail from Canada.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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