first papers
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of first papers
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston University economist, has known Summers since graduate school and coauthored one of the first papers Summers published in an academic journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Her first papers suggesting ultrasound’s potential for offering an effective, less invasive form of fetal screening — available to women of any age — were published in 1985.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Ankita Patnaik, an economist at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington DC, authored one of the first papers studying QPIP.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2018
Jurkowski, for one, started his lab in 2012 just before the first papers showing CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing in human cells were published.
From Nature ● Dec. 1, 2015
I was not a neutral; my first papers of American citizenship were valueless to further my escape.
From With the Turks in Palestine by Alexander Aaronsohn
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