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initially

[ih-nish-uh-lee] / ɪˈnɪʃ ə li /
ADVERB
at first
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India’s foreign ministry initially said that of the 24 Indian crew on the ship, 21 had been rescued while three sailors were missing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Shuttle bus fares, initially priced at $80 to make a similar journey, have been dropped to $20.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

It’s thought that the dwelling initially served as Hoult’s primary California base—and he purchased it just a few weeks before welcoming his first child with wife Bryana Holly.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The hypothesis views Earth itself as capable of gradually producing an organic world from an initially all-inorganic environment under harsh primordial conditions, an idea broadly consistent with earlier abiogenesis concepts.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Along with the crops, they were useful commodities in the marketplaces of each city in the trade networks initially established by the Toltecs.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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