But China — which gave the world movable type printing, gunpowder and the compass — has spawned a population of tinkerers who display the kind of outsize ambition that has helped the country become a global economic giant.
This high demand for limited-edition Disney park merch has spawned a black market of such items on eBay and Etsy, with annual season pass holders buying items in bulk and then selling them online at a marked-up rate.
) spawned in this era.
In such certain environment, any mistakes can be avoided, and such environment has spawned an unhealthy perfectionism.
" The Jobses' house and the others in their neighborhood were built by the real estate developer Joseph Eichler, whose company spawned more than eleven thousand homes in various California subdivisions between 1950 and 1974.
The successful YouTube channel has spawned a second one called Ryan's FamilyReview in Nov 2016, which features family time with Ryan's parents and his adorable twin sisters.
This last trend has even spawned a television show-Storage Wars-in which rent-dodgers' possessions are sold, often for surprisingly high prices.
The craze has spawned dozens of imitation companies, of which at least 10 have secured funding from international investors.
With a mobile-phone penetration rate of more than 100% -- meaning some individuals carry more than one handset -- and smartphones nearly two-thirds of those devices, the government is setting measures to deal with the problems such heavy exposure has spawned.
Cellular reprogramming triggered the rewriting of biology textbooks and spawned thousands of new experiments in labs around the world.
When Bonitos are first spawned, they are tiny—measuring only 1/8 of an inch.
Eventually, his love for theater lead him to audition for the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he received a scholarship at the age of 26, which spawned an acting career that lasted more than 40 years, including numerous critically-acclaimed performances on the stage as well as film and TV work.
It also spawned a new term for another breed of parent – the cat dad, who is laid back, stand-offish and slow to anger.
The rise of social media has spawned a raft of tourists for whom the ability to instantly publicise their trip is as important as the experience itself.
The technological distractions (emails and social media) and unending workloads have spawned an industry — books, blogs and executive coaches — devoted to "life hacks" aimed at increasing our individual productivity through efficiency.
But the "beautiful mind" that gave him such prodigious mathematical talent was indivisible from the one which spawned powerful delusions.
Consequently, to believe that only Earth has spawned intelligence is to insist that our world is the site of a miracle.
There's nothing wrong with it (men do it, too), and it prevents a situation like the one that arose a few years ago when the French housing minister Cécile Duflot wore a floral dress to speak in Parliament, and was met by catcalls and whistles, which then spawned a whole debate about her dress and the reaction to her dress, and entirely overshadowed whatever it was they had been debating at the time.
Spawned by advances in robotics, big data, cloud computing and mobile, the revolution could replace millions of jobs.
Soon enough, it had spawned versions from L'Oréal, Smashbox, Clinique, Jane Iredale, Stila and Dior — and paved the way for a Korean beauty invasion of the United States.
