first comer

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There’s a fear that if the Chinese establish the first moon base, they will assert the advantages of a first comer to exclude later arrivals from areas with valuable resources, particularly water.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue."

From Time Magazine Archive

Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside.

From Time Magazine Archive

When this was done, they sat down to partake of the food that the first comer had by this time cooked.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

Moreover, it is necessary to have contemplated the grandest spectacles of nature in order to understand and love her least conspicuous wonders; for nature does not surrender herself to the first comer.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various