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Despite originally receiving information suggesting otherwise, we now understand the fee restriction that had originally been placed on the Owls through until the summer transfer window of 2027 will end in January.

From BBC

As a result, she said, several people who were deported to a third country have been sent by officials there back to the country they originally fled.

From Los Angeles Times

By the late fifteenth century, however, the lines originally drawn in biblical maps began spreading into maps of the wider world.

From Science Daily

Fathers and daughters embraced under string lights and drapes, as Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” played, a song created by Wonder originally for his own daughter.

From Salon

Jenna Fansa, co-founder of the Winter Toy Appeal said she originally set it up because it felt unfair that some children did not get presents at Christmas due to living in poverty.

From BBC