first draft
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Duris, from Kickresume, agreed that, if you’re going to use AI for writing your résumé, you shouldn’t let it write your entire first draft.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
There are two major shortcomings that keep it from carrying much more weight than a flawed first draft by a junior fellow at a minor think tank would.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Was I too mean? Or not mean enough? I went through my first draft and tried to take out the snark,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Indeed, Britain’s encouragement of the slave trade was one of the offenses he cited in his first draft of the Declaration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
I completed the first draft of this book on the sixth anniversary of my adoption.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
