originally
Americanadverb
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with respect to origin; by origin.
Originally he came from California.
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at the beginning; at first.
Originally this was to be in three volumes.
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in the first place; primarily.
Originally nomads, they first learned agriculture from the missionaries.
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in an original, novel, or distinctively individual manner.
Originally planned houses are much in demand.
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Archaic. from the beginning; from the first; inherently.
adverb
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in the first place
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in an original way
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with reference to the origin or beginning
Etymology
Origin of originally
Example Sentences
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In CPB’s Big Bend Sector project, for example, contractors were ultimately required to install cattle fencing and cattle guards — something Posillico’s lawsuit contends was not what the government originally asked of potential contractors.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
"MouseMapper is built on a foundation model, which means it generalizes far beyond the data it was originally trained on," says Ying Chen, co-first author of the study.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2026
City Hall was originally told the contract would cost between £15m and £25m per year over two years.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
After all, Nvidia was built originally on sales to gaming platforms.
From Barron's • May 22, 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
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