First World
the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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Origin of First World
1- Compare Second World, Third World, Fourth World.
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How to use First World in a sentence
“We live in a mobile-first and cloud-First World,” Nadella wrote in a memo on July 10.
In a nationwide broadcast, Correa bitterly complained of first-world indifference.
Its affably glib opening lines set the tone while acknowledging the First-World-problems aspect to the text.
Must-Reads: ‘The Last Nude,’ ‘Arrows of the Night,’ and ‘The Fallback Plan’ | Bruce Riedel, Lauren Elkin, Drew Nellins | January 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBrazil is transforming itself, from third-world to first-world.
Dom Phillips reports on the bloodbath—and how Brazil imported a first-world problem.
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