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Synonyms:
- originally, ...or something (like that), pshaw, initially, primarily, formatively, preliminarily, what does something have to do with...?, of course, to begin with, first, puh-leeze, hah, aboriginally, et cetera, thirdly, first off, right, preparatorily, my, arguably, foremost, for the first time, and so on/forth, last but not least, second, lastly, first of all, secondly, ha, maidenly
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- - Firstly, the beans should invariably be washed and placed in a basin of cold water the night before they are required for use, and should remain in soak about ten or twelve hours. - "New Vegetarian Dishes", Mrs. Bowdich
- - Firstly, she lays title to it on the ground that geographically Fiume belongs to Croatia, and that Croatia is now a part of Jugoslavia, or, to give the new country its correct name, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. - "The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean", Edward Alexander Powell
- - He had been privately warned both by his father and mother that he was on no account to visit this particular friend of the Allens, firstly, because Zachariah was reputed to be, " inclined towards infidelity," and secondly, because, summing up the whole argument, he was not " considered respectable." - "The Revolution in Tanner's Lane", Mark Rutherford
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