first papers

plural noun

: papers declaring intention filed by an applicant for citizenship as the first step in the naturalization process

Examples of first papers in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis published one of the first papers to test how extending UI benefits to people who quit would impact the American economy. —

Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024 While the menstrual cycle has been notoriously understudied, the first papers on PMDD appeared in 1930s. —

Shalene Gupta, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024 Photograph: Getty Images Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020 election were finally published. —

WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023 Although evolutionary developmental biologists have previously speculated that these changes in the 3D architecture of a genome might be possible, this is probably one of the first papers to clearly link them to fairly big changes in body shape, Marlétaz said. —

Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for first papers

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