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firstly, gather all the ingredients together
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For the outgoing, 82-year-old president, the challenge is firstly to manage the federal response and, secondly, to give voice to public sorrow and angst about the events.
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
Simon Johnson has spent the majority of his career as a sports reporter since 2000 covering Chelsea, firstly for Hayters and then the London Evening Standard.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
This was a man who had lengthy experience in surviving far from luxuriant conditions, firstly from his time living with the destitute of Paris and London as part of his first successful non-fiction volume and secondly as a fighter for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
Their leaders know firstly that, in the Middle East, small wars have had a habit of becoming far larger ones.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
Simon Johnson has spent the majority of his career as a sports reporter since 2000 covering Chelsea, firstly for Hayters and then the London Evening Standard.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
This was a man who had lengthy experience in surviving far from luxuriant conditions, firstly from his time living with the destitute of Paris and London as part of his first successful non-fiction volume and secondly as a fighter for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
Their leaders know firstly that, in the Middle East, small wars have had a habit of becoming far larger ones.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Firstly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/firstly. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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firstly
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first·ly
ˈfərst-lē 
: in the first place
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