How to Use in the first place in a Sentence

in the first place

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• But only if people feel safe enough to ask for help in the first place.
  — Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Those who were lucky enough to get one in the first place now held the hottest ticket in town.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
• And why are travelers so pressed to get on the plane, bags and all, in the first place?
  — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 July 2026
• The key is to understand what caused the increase in the first place.
  — Amy Powell, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Fixing that changes what gets greenlit and funded in the first place.
  — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• This is what drives many teachers into the profession in the first place.
  — Mackenzie Price, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Jared Moskowitz has lost sight of why he was elected to Congress in the first place.
  — Scott Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
• The goal, however, is to avoid having to do a tree replacement in the first place.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 7 July 2026
• The board had stopped watching, but the review mechanism had never functioned in the first place.
  — Tiffany Archer, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• More meetings to coordinate what should have been connected in the first place.
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• El-Sayed believes many of those voters are winnable again if his party reckons with what drove them away in the first place.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 8 July 2026
• But those allegations don't change why Thomas was suspended in the first place.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
• Taken too far, the pursuit of a goal can undermine the reason for pursuing it in the first place.
  — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 June 2026
• Risk is the variable that needs to be addressed because that’s what is supposed to make mortgages investable in the first place.
  — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 July 2026
• But for now two of the key people behind making the film in the first place want to enjoy a moment they have rarely been allowed.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
• Some physicians also question how many patients will be comfortable with an implant in the first place.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 11 July 2026
• This gene matching is how scientists often spot outbreaks of foodborne illness in the first place.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• Most don’t run that long in the first place, and ones that do often have films that suffer significant drops in quality.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• But really, what makes Smith worthy of the honor is what makes those around him describe him as robotic in the first place.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 5 July 2026
• That spread everything thin and almost everything was canceled or never greenlit in the first place.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• The smoke, the char, the flavor—the reasons for cooking with live fire in the first place—are there in ways even the best pellet grills struggle to produce.
  — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
• So this begs an important question about how WD 1856 b even got there in the first place.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
• But the answer might also be what convinces a talented person to accept an offer—or apply in the first place.
  — Benjamin Wolff, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• That only works if your architecture prevents common mistakes in the first place—and can prove what happened, when and by whom.
  — Brian Stimpfl, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
• How exactly Twin Temple and Crockett got linked up in the first place is unclear.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2026
• So the debate isn’t simply about which ideas deserve a public vote, but about who gets to decide what voters are allowed to weigh in on in the first place.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
• In the middle of it all stood a young man that, if the current administration had its way, wouldn’t have been allowed to be on the team in the first place.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
• Oftentimes, preventing clutter in the first place is much easier than letting go of it after the fact.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2026
• Taxpayers no longer received the certainty that had made the procedures attractive in the first place.
  — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Two lots of dog food not only have been pulled this week in a not-food-in-your-food recall, but the manufacturer claims theft put them on store shelves in the first place.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026