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Founded in 2008, Betaworks was originally a venture studio, where it incubated social-media startups, including TweetDeck and Giphy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"What surprised us was that the calving instead followed a different fracture, producing a smaller ice island than we had originally anticipated," Garbo said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
It originally had a niche following, but the fan base blew up in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The match, originally scheduled to be played on one of the outer courts, was moved to the 14,000-capacity Louis Armstrong Stadium after heavy rain in New York.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
We have seen that Roman lawyers regarded vestigia, which originally meant the tracks left by an animal, as a form of evidence.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
