first-born
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Gilham said Stanley's father, who was an MP, and his mother - who helped establish the first women's college at Cambridge University - had "great expectations for their first-born".
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
Naturally, Sybil can’t stand the thought of her first-born child limiting his worldview, especially because Everett was the one to expand hers.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
"My first-born baby will always be in our minds and in our hearts," she added.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
Rebekah, a corporate striver with a mercenary streak, is beholden to her first-born boy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
In our sort of family it is well to be the first-born: what resources there are, have later to be shared out in smaller and smaller portions.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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