first draft

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A.I. didn’t outline it for me and didn’t catch typos on a first draft, though I don’t have any more of a moral issue with that practice than I do with using spellcheck.

From Slate • May 24, 2026

To you it feels like — Like a first draft.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

A first draft was submitted for approval in September but it has since undergone changes.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

However, Cardinal Jose Cobo Cano, Archbishop of Madrid, stressed it was only a first draft of a plan for now.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The second section of this first draft that Washington sent to Hamilton focused on the foreign policy issues that had dominated his second term.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis