first place
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The company made headlines this week for plucking downed pilots out of peril, but its larger goal is to keep servicemembers out of harm’s way in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
“The decision to do it in the first place, was very institution specific and I would suspect that any decision to reverse that type of a policy would be equally institution specific,” he says.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Aid returning to Ituri with Ebola-specific funding would be more effective if public health aid simply hadn’t left in the first place.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
On election night in 2022, real estate developer Rick Caruso was in first place, with Bass in second.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
It was half the reason Molly and she wanted a theater in the first place.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
