first love

noun

: the first person one loves in a romantic way
You never forget your first love.

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Tyrone Taylor has posted some of the best defensive metrics among all center fielders this season, but defense isn’t the first love for the glove-first outfielder. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025 Music, Son’s first love as a performer, has become a cathartic release after being on-set all day. Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 22 May 2025 After costume designing — her last credit was Pool Boys (2009) — Norton returned to her first love, painting. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025 The tone shifts, though, becoming myopic and even a little queasy once the film leaves high school behind and heads deeper into the forest, literally and figuratively, a shift that mimics the swoony, woozy, consumptive rush of first love — just what Hardwicke intended to capture. Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for first love

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“First love.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20love. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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