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foremost

[fawr-mohst, -muhst, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌmoʊst, -məst, ˈfoʊr- /


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Even as a multi-hyphenate, I always say I’m first and foremost a battle rapper.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

"First and foremost, my coping mechanism is poetry. I use poetry as a self-therapy to express how I feel," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

“Marvell is first and foremost an optical company and with ports growing rapidly the market growth carries the name alone,” he said in a Thursday note.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

This perpetual instability likely led many Israelis, perhaps first and foremost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to believe that the regime was more brittle than it actually was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The issue of replication is central to a topic of foremost importance for any understanding of the Scientific Revolution: the demise of alchemy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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