first case

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My very first case as a partner was a variable-fee arrangement.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

In the first case, you want to celebrate; in the second, you want to be left alone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The first case was reported on April 24, in a healthcare worker who later died.

From MarketWatch • May 17, 2026

Meanwhile two Britons are voluntarily self-isolating at home in the UK, having disembarked the vessel at St Helena on 24 April alongside dozens of other passengers before the first case of hantavirus was confirmed.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis—the first case for over half a century.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley