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English word

initially

B2Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ɪˈnɪʃəli/US /ɪˈnɪʃəli/
adverb

at the beginning

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Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable Startup | CNBC video example

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When Kim dropped out of business school in the late-2000s, he initially started Coupang as a Groupon-style daily deals business.

Coupang: How a Harvard Dropout Built Korea's Most Valuable Startup

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Initially, just selling to businesses—or when do you picture you'll start selling them where you can buy your parents one for Christmas or something?

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Sentence 287 · Pro

Um, initially, I thought, well, perhaps it's a question of funding—and that funding can be uh garnered by really marshalling public support forward.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 81 · Pro

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