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first-time

a. Happening for the first time; doing something for the first time.

Usage examples of "first-time".

Bob Martinez has proposed drug-testing for all first-time applicants for a Florida driver license.

When we look at the big chart, my name is number nineteen, but down in the lower right-hand corner, where seven first-time fencers are listed, my name is at the top.

Now Gov. Bob Martinez has proposed drug-testing for all first-time applicants for a Florida driver license.

One of them, a lady of some seventy summers with that exquisite look of confusion which only first-time fliers with too many years or too little English seem capable of wearing, stopped to show Jane Doming her tickets.

With barnyard fowl, first-time mothers weren't always very motherly.

On crime, I asked for passage of the Brady bill, military-style boot camps for first-time nonviolent offenders, and my proposal to put 100,000 new police on the streets.

It will be what it was meant to be-a correctional facility for first-time offenders.

At the end of term, false labor is just a part of giving birth, especially for first-time mothers.

First-time gondola riders and fraidy-cats tittered and screamed as our gondola swooned downward.

The doctors offered to put me in one of the shapeshifter halfway houses (read prisons) for the first-time furry.

Barry Young is a former juvenile court bailiff who is now a counselor with Ayers' Alternative Program, which works with first-time criminal offenders.

Thus it is not surprising to find that wherever organizations today are caught up in the stream of technological or social change, wherever research and development is important, wherever men must cope with first-time problems, the decline of bureaucratic forms is most pronounced.

How often do communities, organizations or individuals have to cope with first-time situations?

Every ring, bell, and bracelet had been removed from her extremities, and her eyes, which resembled shot glasses of warm Hershey syrup, were given over to ansoopia, which is to say, were rolled almost violently upward (think of the heavenward eyeballings of first-time sinners or the traumatic posturing of El Greco saints).

If they got a first-time pass, which had rarely happened with the other units that were already operational, he had been approved for unit leave of one week.