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
At the start of the pandemic, Shane Crotty, of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology, published some of the first papers looking at the immune response to COVID.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2023
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
I took out what are called first papers.
From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot
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