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Initially

/ɪˈnɪʃəli/
At the beginning or start of a process or situation.

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Examples:

She was nervous initially but then relaxed.Initially, the book was hard to understand.

Etymology:

etymology
Derived from the Latin word initium, meaning entrance or beginning, which evolved to initial in Late Latin and then into the English initially.

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