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
In 1980, one of Warren’s first papers as a full-time professor at the University of Houston took on one of the most divisive political issues of the time: utilities.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2019
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
Indeed, they did not even arouse a controversial spirit, as his first papers had done.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
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