The word cherry has roots in the Greek word kerasos, and is also associated with the Turkish city of Cerasus (now Giresun), where the first exports of cherries to Europe originated.

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Not for nothing does the word credit have its roots in the Latin word credere, to believe.

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To distinguish Popchips from the hundreds of other foods in the snack aisle, Mr. Belling focused on word-of-mouth and grass-roots marketing.

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Though her family came from the Soviet intelligentsia, her roots went back further, to the 19th-century thinkers who invented the word.

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