How to Use in the original in a Sentence

in the original

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  • The role of Nell was not in the original short that the film was based on.
    EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • There are only a few seats around an island in the original store.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Irwin was found in the original search area during an off-trail grid search.
    Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The story remains true — and just as fun — to what was in the original film.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
  • None of that was as clear in the original production.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Oregano adds freshness and hits the same bright note as basil in the original chicken dish.
    Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Lyrically, in the original one, that didn't flow right to me.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • What the dubs consist of depends on the language used in the original video.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Many people believed much of the footage in the original film was real.
    William Earl, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • None of it appeared in the original calculus of a six-week war.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The guest suite, located in the original wing, comes with a walk-in closet and a full bath.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike most pantry staples, oil is best stored in the original bottle.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026
  • That's a bit shy of 13 episodes per season in the original series.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 19 July 2023
  • The main character is a nameless avatar in the original telling.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Plus, there were gaps in the original genome, which weren’t completely filled until just last year.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • Trump will now face eight felony counts — down from 13 in the original indictment.
    Sam Gringlas, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Then place an edge between two nodes if the difference between them is in the original set.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Choose among four rooms in the historic lighthouse and one in the original fog signal building.
    Sheryl Nance Nash, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • The rapper starred in the original film and plays himself in the remake for a meta pseudo-reprisal.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Many of the 28 people named in the original indictment have since walked free.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
  • So there may be a scene that’s two minutes in the original, but there’s a 10 minute version in the five-hour cut.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • They can be stored dormant in the original shipping package for no more than two weeks before planting.
    Dr. Lauren Kurtz, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Nitty is a new character that didn’t exist in the original.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The red robe Stu was wearing at the party in the original Scream is also there.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Most stores will accept gifts without receipts as long as they are still tagged or in the original packaging.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The car race brought me back to the ridiculously challenging race in the original Mafia.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • As in the original game, fortunes can swing fast – and one wrong move could send a contestant directly to jail.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • The new mix aims to clean up instances in the original mix where the sound of the instruments overwhelmed the equipment of the time.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But Yakub, a devilish prodigy, back-bred a strain of brown in the original humans.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps an ode to the cerulean sweater that prompted Priestly's long-winded rant in the original film?
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025

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