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Police originally said the victim was a man but have since confirmed the boy's age.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The state trial, originally scheduled for June, was postponed until September.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The scene originally had Peet’s character being recognized by someone who awkwardly can’t quite place her.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The weekly shots originally had list prices of up to $1,350 a month, though prices have come down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

He had originally proposed the concept in Hereditary Genius as early as 1869—thirty years before the rediscovery of Mendel—but left the idea unexplored, concentrating, instead, on the mechanism of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee