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in the first instance

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Definitions

  1. As the first step or stage

    As the first step or stage; first.

    • Work on the muskeg resulted in the formation in the first instance, and later in lengths of newly-laid track disappearing without trace into the treacherous bog.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in the first instance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA