foremost
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“Mayor’s races are first and foremost about what people see outside of their front doors, when they walk their kids to school, when they drive to work,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
Vasily Kashin, director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, last month published a widely discussed piece in Russia’s foremost foreign-policy journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Heteropessimism exists alongside heterosexuality not because being straight is terrible or embarrassing or out of fashion, but because it is, first and foremost, an institution — one that in many places remains dangerous to spurn.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
"First and foremost, on behalf of all who have been involved in the operation to find Mackenzie since Saturday, I send deepest sympathies to his family and friends," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
He'd need to make sure he was ready, and to put his best foot forward, first and foremost, he needed to not smell like a...forward foot.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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