as in originally
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Some of the works and items are still arranged as Frick had originally installed them (though almost half of the permanent collection has been acquired since his death in 1919).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026 -
Just before the deployment, there was an ugly scene at San Francisco International Airport after agents carried away a passenger, originally from Guatemala, who was waiting to board a domestic flight with her daughter.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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The college initially transferred the land to the state for the project during a brief public meeting with no discussion or debate about its planned use.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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Welke is the judge who initially granted Duckett's request to test the DNA.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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The community Fogo Island Inn sits on Joe Batt’s Arm, one of 11 communities on the island that are powered primarily by a single economic engine—its fishery.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Apr. 2026
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The sharp rise owes to a cocoa shortage caused primarily by adverse weather and crop disease in West Africa, which accounts for about 70% of the world’s cocoa.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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