stem from sth
— phrasal verb with stem uk/stem/us/stem/verb [ T ] -mm-
C1 to start or develop as the result of something:
Her problems stem from her difficult childhood.
Their disagreement stemmed from a misunderstanding.
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- be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc. idiom
- beginning
- birthplace
- born
- breeding ground
- come from somewhere/sth
- emanate from/through sth/sb
- fount
- genesis
- hail from somewhere
- issue
- issue from sth
- recipe
- root
- seed
- son
- source
- stem
- the cradle of sth idiom
- ur-
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