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originally

[uh-rij-uh-nl-ee] / əˈrɪdʒ ə nl i /
ADVERB
initially
Synonyms
STRONGEST
basically formerly
STRONG
primitively
WEAK
at first at the outset at the start by birth by origin first in the beginning in the first place incipiently primarily to begin with
Antonyms
WEAK
secondarily

Example Sentences

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To everyone’s surprise, its ratings frequently beat its competitor, Milton Berle’s No. 1 variety show, originally known as “Texaco Star Theater.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

When it touched that band on Monday, that completed a successful MVB buy signal, which originally took place on April 1 just below the 6,600 level on SPX.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

She and Razzell, who is originally from Somerset, had been in the middle of divorce proceedings.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was originally sentenced to 18 years in prison.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

Bruno Latour, in an important essay entitled ‘Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together’, which originally appeared in 1986, claimed that the printing press made facts ‘harder’; before printing, facts were too soft to be reliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton