How to Use genesis in a Sentence

genesis

noun
  • That was sort of the genesis of this project.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • What was the genesis of the idea for the film?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Tell me about the genesis of the bill.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Just even just the genesis of this book.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
  • And that was the genesis of this whole thing.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Tell us more about the genesis of this project.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • That was the genesis for the film.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Let’s start with the genesis of this project.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Was that the genesis of this project?
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 May 2026
  • That’s the genesis of the fund.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
  • So that was a little bit of the genesis of the book.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • The genesis of that feud was that the show was so real.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • So that’s kind of the genesis block of why we got involved in the space.
    — Byjustin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 9 June 2023
  • So, talk to me about the genesis of this podcast.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 3 Mar. 2026
  • That was the real genesis of this film.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The park’s genesis was shaped by the project’s research phase.
    — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2021
  • So that was the genesis of the basket catch and the hat flying off his head.
    — John. N. McMurray, Smithsonian, 6 June 2018
  • This was the genesis of our problem.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
  • And that is the power of music…and the genesis of these shows.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • So what was the genesis of the movement that spawned a million memes?
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The genesis of the movie was a trip to Taiwan with your dad four years ago.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The genesis of the character goes back a few decades.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • All of these details can help the provider more quickly suss out the genesis of your puffy node.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The genesis of this chorus was born out of this tragedy, and in it, this sense of activism.
    — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Read on to see what else Jam has to say about the album’s genesis and legacy.
    — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Like most of life’s better ideas, the genesis of this article was in the pub.
    — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The genesis of the product happened in chunks.
    — James Manso, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This cosmic head start would have streamlined the genesis of life on our nascent planet.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
  • So, anyway, that was the genesis of the project, to try to find answers to this question.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
  • What was the genesis of Trial of Hein?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026

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