It seems, on the internet, that the term "pen pals" defines those looking for relationships, where pen pals originated via postal mail correspondences and has evolved to mean something more.

The species is a polyploid and originated via hybridization of an East Asian Hordeum species with a close but extinct relative of Californian H. brachyantherum.

This moon is sacred to the Chigs because it is where life originated via panspermia and where Chigs still go to be born.

The Utsunomiya District Court considered article 200 unconstitutional and acquitted Aizawa because the crime originated via self-defense on May 29, 1969.

The Rivanna's tributaries originate in the Blue Ridge Mountains; via the James River, it is part of the watershed of Chesapeake Bay.

Duracell originated via the partnership of scientist Samuel Ruben and businessman Philip Rogers Mallory, who met during the 1920s.

Humanity originated via an evolutionary process.

Hordeum intercedens originated via long-distance dispersal of a southern South American Hordeum species to North America less than 1 million years ago.

Mr. Freeman can find the "notes" he sees in the paper on our ArtsBeat blog, where they generally originate as journalism, or via the search function at NYTimes.com.

Detailed studies have not yet been done to see whether the CDC gene cluster originated via LGT or reflects ancient paralogy.