source material
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I cannot make the straight-faced argument that the worst “Scary Movies” were held back by their source material.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Villarreal: There’s an overwhelming amount of source material from the Kennedy side, but less so on Carolyn.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Matthew White and Howard Jacques’s stage-musical take on the 1935 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film, captured for this ‘Great Performances’ program on PBS, fails to achieve the irresistible charm of its source material.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Those vignettes became source material for her new music.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
As source material, they mined the roster of National Research Fellows.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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