first draft
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A first draft was submitted for approval in September but it has since undergone changes.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Here’s my first draft of a national-security agenda for Democrats seeking the White House in 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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 first draft of the after-action report said that the department’s decision not to fully staff up and pre-deploy available firefighters ahead of the ferocious winds “did not align” with policy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
Most often, they themselves don’t know the point of their essay until they have written a first draft, and never go back to reshape the essay so that the point is clear at the beginning.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
