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[ adverb ] the initial time;
Synonyms Examples "when Felix first saw a garter snake" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)A bright sun and brisk wind had the track in a fast condition for_the_first_time this week and 8280 St._Patty_Day celebrants bet $ 842617 on the well prepared program . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)The third method was , to our knowledge , successfully applied for_the_first_time by C._Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ) . (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)Feelings of a community of interest will have_to be recreated - in some of the new nations , indeed , they must be built for_the_first_time - on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)The pain in itself was neutral ; but unfortunately the rabbit , on no grounds at_all , took_up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for_the_first_time , and in the only intelligible sense , bad . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It was the collage that made the terms of_this dilemma clear : the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become , for_the_first_time , mutually_exclusive alternatives . |
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