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at first
adverb as in originally
Strong match
adverb as in primarily
Example Sentences
My attachment to the song became especially pronounced last Christmas, when I had my first love-at-first-sight experience.
Even Mr. Seward, cautious and conservative diplomat as he was, at-first "opposed any concession or surrender of the prisoners."
It was a sudden smite,—one of those flash-in-the-pan, love-at-first-sight affairs.
She recollected her love-at-first-sight for the pretty bride, and well-nigh regarded the friendship as a romance of her girlhood.
And it was always the same round-faced, beamy-looking girl—not Miss Cross-at-first, certainly.
It was—the light was full in her face, and she was frowning just the sort of way I remembered—it was Miss Cross-at-first!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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