Synonym: earlier, in the beginning, originally, primarily, to begin with. Similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight. Meaning: adv. 1. before now 2. of primary import.
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181. Thus, the "fuzziness" of our memory can often be just as important in our daily lives as being able to remember lots and lots of information in the first place.
182. That's why the government came up with the preferred plan in the first place.
183. Any one unit of money is as good as any other, and indeed it is precisely for its homogeneity, divisibility, and recognizability that the market chooses gold as money in the first place.
184. That said, the two countries are as different as chalk and cheese, and the comparison is silly in the first place.
185. She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.
186. The large number of detections made sense: Lingcod had been tagged near this receiver in the first place, and for them the area was probably home.
187. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?
188. The city has lost many of its traditional residents who formed an essential part of its "Living Heritage" and streetscape that qualifies George Town to the World Heritage Site in the first place.
189. We reaffirm that everyone should consider the work in the first place.
190. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe(http://sentencedict.com/in the first place.html), and whether the research should have been done in the first place.
191. Build ecocities and New Urbanism that require less energy in the first place.
192. In the first place, as a dialect the East Midland type of English, played the role of medium between the extreme separations of the north and south.
193. Then, we point out the partition of central and local finance. In the first place, we look back the historical evolution of the partition of centra!
194. I am a teacher in the first place and a writer in the next place.
195. As English-Chinese scientific and technical translation is increasingly becoming a topic of much concern, it is quite necessary to establish such a UT in the first place.
196. Hopefully Sabat's death sentence will be repealed, but it does seem odd that his psychic powers didn't predict this travesty in the first place.
197. In the first place, Hoover was as inept at politics as he was superb at administration.
198. If art teaches anything (to the artist, in the first place), it is the privateness of the human condition.
199. Since there's no evidence that the bodily or psychic energy exists in the first place, there's no way to prove that a "psychic vampire" is in fact draining that energy.
200. Now, the official who promotes a candidate in the first place also has the power to recommend him or her to the Pope for beatification .
More similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight, in place, replace, first and foremost, workplace, take place, out of place, in place of, placement, replacement, in the future, take the place of, palace, burst into, in that, in the way, in the end, in the air, complaint, in the dark, in the past, in the way of, in the open.