first draft
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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
In an email to ProPublica and Drilled, Socolow wrote that the document was not a first draft of “Wedges,” but, he added, it was the first substantial write-up of his ideas.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
The hapless lawyer said a law clerk had caught other fabricated quotes in a first draft.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The second section of this first draft that Washington sent to Hamilton focused on the foreign policy issues that had dominated his second term.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
