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first papers
plural noun
: papers declaring intention filed by an applicant for citizenship as the first step in the naturalization process
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Student Performance Anything that limits access to phones is a positive, says Louis-Philippe Beland, an associate professor of economics at Carleton University in Ontario and co-author of one of the first papers on the academic impact of smartphone access.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis published one of the first papers to test how extending UI benefits to people who quit would impact the American economy.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024
While the menstrual cycle has been notoriously understudied, the first papers on PMDD appeared in 1930s.
—Shalene Gupta, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Photograph: Getty Images Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020 election were finally published.
—WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
1912, in the meaning defined above
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“First papers.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20papers. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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