source material
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Those vignettes became source material for her new music.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
There’s no possibility, however, that the Nintendo source material will leave your mind during 2023’s animated smash “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” or its sequel, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Tracy said he wanted to respect the source material, but without feeling constricted by it.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
Fennell is not merely playing fast and loose with her source material, as a skeptic might think; she’s lifting the evocative images of Brontë’s prose and envisioning them as one might when reading the novel.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
Pulcinella is sparklingly inventive with its source material but it is nevertheless the musical equivalent of placing the Art Deco spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building on top of Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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