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originally

[uh-rij-uh-nl-ee] / əˈrɪdʒ ə nl i /


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It originally ended with a hard cut to black.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The latest downgrade in fourth-quarter GDP, meanwhile, stemmed from a bigger slowdown in the production of inventories — unsold goods — than originally reported.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Bronner inherited his verbosity and gumption from his grandfather, Emanuel Bronner, who originally crammed all-caps, feel-good credos onto the labels of his soap bottles in the 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

To achieve this, scientists used JQ1, a small molecule inhibitor originally developed to study cancer and inflammatory diseases.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

If she had fired her retrorockets when originally instructed to, she would have been pushed farther out into space without a way to return.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson