initial discovery

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initial
adjective[before noun]
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/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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discovery
noun
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/dɪˈskʌv.ər.i/us
/dɪˈskʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of finding information, a place, or an object, especially for the first time, or the thing that ...
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After theinitialdiscovery, a large literature was published extending the result in various directions.
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Even after theinitialdiscovery, research with other subjects would have been very difficult.
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Theinitialdiscovery(the effect of replacing oatmeal with fruit) was unexpected, and so were later results.
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Since theirinitialdiscovery, detailed surveys of the populations of these two species have been conducted in four of the twelve years between 1994 and 2004.
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Theinitialdiscoverywas quite serendipitous.
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Theinitialdiscoveryand promotion of the wave is curious.
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Fourteen years after theinitialdiscovery, the debate about the find's authenticity was still unresolved.
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Their relationship to other dinosaurs was not recognized until well after theirinitialdiscovery.
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Initialdiscoveryincluded portions of the skull, incomplete humerus and several other wing bones.
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This is designated as theinitialdiscoveryof the infestation, which raises the alarm, causing the game to start.
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Theinitialdiscoveryof a cratered surface made this seem unlikely, but further evidence has changed this view.
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This scene, as well as theinitialdiscoveryof the character's body, were removed in the episode.
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Theinitialdiscoverywas made in 2006, as part of a find of dozens of pliosaur and plesiosaur specimens.
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Thisinitialdiscoverywas based around the use of calcium silicide to inoculate irons melted in a controlled manner.
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Theinitialdiscoveryof the virus' oncolytic properties were limited to only a few types of cancer.
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Founded as a fishing settlement, it became a gold mining community with aninitialdiscoveryin the area in 1867, with further discoveries in 1892.
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He made aninitialdiscoverythat a commercial preparation of insulin was contaminated with another pancreatic hormone, the insulin antagonist glucagon.
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The well confirmed the eastern extension of the field and also the hydrocarbon contacts seen in both sand formations in theinitialdiscovery.
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Nucleic acids were named for theirinitialdiscoverywithin the nucleus, and for the presence of phosphate groups (related to phosphoric acid).
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After living a normal life for the next year, however, tests were taken which showed that the tumor had not grown since itsinitialdiscovery.
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After the tomb'sinitialdiscoveryin 1880, its location was lost for around 130 years when the tomb was buried in drifting sand.
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These finds changed the common perception of how the system functioned, dominant from theinitialdiscoveryof the site in 1867 and up to 1995.
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In 1999, ten years after theinitialdiscovery, neural recordings in the awake state were also shown to have replay activity.
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He acquired a tract of poor quality land, which was either the site of theinitialdiscoveryor near to it, for $1500.
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