as in originally
in the beginning we initially intended to rebuild our hurricane-damaged home from the ground up

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Recent Examples on the Web The Kremlin had initially dismissed allegations of North Korean troop deployments, but on Thursday at the BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not deny that Pyongyang had sent soldiers to the country. Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024 The Bel Air initially was featured in Balenciaga’s fall 2024 presentation in Paris in March. Hannah Malach, WWD, 24 Oct. 2024 Martha Kegel, executive director of Unity of Greater New Orleans, a nonprofit that seeks permanent housing for unsheltered people, said moving the encampment was better than disbanding it as advocates had initially feared. Owen Tripp, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024 The Sukhoi Su-34 multirole strike aircraft is a twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber, initially developed for the Soviet Air Forces in the 1980s. Peter Suciu, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for initially 

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“Initially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/initially. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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