first draft
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To you it feels like — Like a first draft.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
However, Cardinal Jose Cobo Cano, Archbishop of Madrid, stressed it was only a first draft of a plan for now.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
He has always started his novels in notebooks, he says, before typing a first draft on his trusted typewriter, then moving onto a computer.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
If journalism is the first draft of history, TV news is a rough, improbable sketch.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 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
