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  • noun Plural form of original.

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Examples

  • If so then my boyfriend has some explaining to do this weekend about all those Jurassic Park toys he's constantly playing with, and so does my brother who hilariously enough went off to college last year with his Buzz and Woody in tow and yes, they are the originals from the first movie.

    Toy Story 3 Trailer #2: So Many Toys! | /Film 2010

  • Configuration is also very simple – there are four archiving options – archiving the whole message but leaving the originals on the Exchange Server, archiving just attachments and leaving the originals on the Exchange server, archiving attachments and removing the originals from the Exchange server, and archiving the message and attachment and leaving only a stub on the Exchange server.

    RedGate targets disaster recovery Logan G. Harbaugh 2010

  • Am I the only one who thinks that Playstation could have done a better job making the characters actually LOOK like the originals from the movie?

    Pixar’s The Incredibles Coming to Playstation 3’s LBP | /Film 2010

  • Given the costs involved with buying art from successful artists, purchasing originals is a serious financial investment.

    MIND MELD: Art in a Digital World 2008

  • The six unedited reel-to-reel tapes -- "pre-master" originals from the private collection of the studio engineer who recorded them, are valued at between $30,000 and $50,000, according to international auction house Bonhams & Butterfields.

    November 2004 2004

  • The six unedited reel-to-reel tapes -- "pre-master" originals from the private collection of the studio engineer who recorded them, are valued at between $30,000 and $50,000, according to international auction house Bonhams & Butterfields.

    I'll Have a Blue Christmas Without This 2004

  • But, as a rule, the form, which is French form in language (by no means always certainly or probably French in nationality of author), is not only the original, but better; and besides, it is with it that we are busied here, though in not a few cases English readers can obtain an idea, fairly sufficient, of these originals from the English versions.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • Likewise, in most instances, digital documents that are identified as originals, needing to be securely stored for a defined period of time due to regulatory demands, are stored as originals - in other words, the actual original file is transferred to an archive medium such as disk or tape.

    CMS Watch Trends and Features 2009

  • International and one of 10 so-called "originals" - staffers who started at Mr. Turner's pipe dream network before June 1980 and still haven't left.

    Outside The Beltway | OTB 2010

  • Among the originals was a song called "Benny" -- a song about a man the singer had dated.

    Michelle Cacciatore: My Night With the Third Wheel Band Michelle Cacciatore 2011

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