as in originally
in the beginning
we initially intended to rebuild our hurricane-damaged home from the ground up
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Indeed, shares of Nvidia were initially higher Thursday before Trump clarified more tariffs are coming next month.
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Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
Trump's decision maintains the measures initially established by Barack Obama in an executive order on March 6, 2014, following Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Tây, the convict who points the gun at Long and hired him initially, is a fellow Vietnamese immigrant.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
His professors, initially skeptical, soon became his mentors—coaches in the game of business.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
Trump's decision maintains the measures initially established by Barack Obama in an executive order on March 6, 2014, following Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Tây, the convict who points the gun at Long and hired him initially, is a fellow Vietnamese immigrant.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
His professors, initially skeptical, soon became his mentors—coaches in the game of business.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Initially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/initially. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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