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earliest
adjective as in first
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The fossils represent the earliest documented appearance of a group of animals that today are the most plentiful on Earth, the researchers report this week in Current Biology.
The earliest votes counted in the 45th Congressional District showed Steel leading by more than 5 percentage points, but that lead vanished as elections officials counted ballots deposited in drop boxes and sent by mail.
The judge added that she would have imposed a longer sentence had he not pled guilty at the earliest opportunity, and that no sentence would make up for the loss suffered by Mr Rollinson’s family.
This is the earliest record of humans using fire to shape the Tasmanian environment.
The earliest on the program, “Jefferson and Liberty” from 1800, included the verse: “Here strangers from thousand shores/Compell’d by tyranny to roam;/Shall find, amidst abundant stores,/A nobler and a happier home.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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