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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

Lawson, whose surgery was originally scheduled for the coming weekend, said: "It was kind of like being hit with a sledgehammer."

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The fossil was originally discovered in Illinois, USA, and first described in 2000.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

The diagrams that originally accompanied Vitruvius’s text were in any case evidently few in number and extremely rudimentary.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton