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originar
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to give rise to, to cause

1.  Un rayo originó los incendios forestales en California.

A lightning strike caused the wild fires in California.

2.  El asesinato del arquiduque Francisco Fernando originó la Primera Guerra Mundial.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand gave rise to the First World War.