first stage
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Only the first stage has produced public corporate commitments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Ministers said Monday's allocation was the first stage of the 10-year programme and more than £16bn remains to be allocated outside London.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
SpaceX shares fell 2.6% Wednesday to close at under $140, as the startup LandSpace landed the first stage of its Zhueque-3 rocket on a launchpad, a first for a Chinese company.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The first stage of the PGA Tour’s postseason, the St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn., invites the top 70 players in the season-long standings—and Koepka wasn’t one of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the first stage of the experiment, he gave them just basic information about Kidd.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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