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• Some go out of their way to hide the habit in the first place.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Jacksonville shooter shouldn’t have been able to buy the guns in the first place.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
• Wait, how was he sprung from custody in the first place?
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
• Then there are the places that never adapted to heat in the first place.
  — Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• So is Courtney Holt, who landed the deal in the first place.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
• But how did scientists lose track of it in the first place?
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• Why would Lee even be attracted to Andy in the first place?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
• Even though no one had explained to us why we had even been pulled over in the first place.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• But gay and bi men are far more likely to be exposed to HIV in the first place.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• What makes these cases unique is that there’s a fight involved in the first place.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2023
• The best thing to do is to reduce the need for air conditioning in the first place.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 5 July 2023
• If they’re not needed, why do humans have them in the first place?
  — Robert H. Shmerling, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• There are some solid reasons to want to pump up your push-up skills in the first place.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Apr. 2024
• When the week began, he wasn’t even supposed to be pitching for the Dodgers on this trip in the first place.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The kind of thing other celebrities might hide away (or refuse to own in the first place), these are kitschy, fun, and self-aware.
  — Angela Serratore, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
• Maybe that was a selfish assumption in the first place.
  — Vogue, 8 Apr. 2024
• In some cases, the agency had to delay awards that took years to secure in the first place.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The best way to treat ingrown hairs, according to Rieder, is to prevent them in the first place.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• Such brutality is what prompts some to flee in the first place.
  — Gary Saul Morson, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• Failure would mean a repeat of the tragedy that caused the doctor to turn to religion in the first place.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Jan. 2024
• The mindset is what attracted her to Provo schools in the first place.
  — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Why does the legal system make these kinds of distinctions in the first place?
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
• But true delight only comes if that gift was wanted in the first place.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 11 Dec. 2023
• But drugs and surgery don’t fix the systemic issues that make children unwell in the first place.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 17 July 2023
• There had to be a reason why such a rumor would circulate in the first place.
  — Owen Elliot-Kugell, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
• Others have argued that the gold digger label was off in the first place.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023
• This time around, the subscription bump is to pay for something that subscribers might not want in the first place.
  — Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• This prompts the question: why are cities trying so hard to house these immigrants in the first place?
  — Rafael Perez, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• How that interview came in to existence in the first place is where Scoop comes in.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
• Still, the only reason they would have been exposed to those diseases in the first place would have been from house cats.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024