first occurrence

Example Sentences

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“If the radiologist had carefully reviewed both breast mammograms at the first occurrence, I would have skipped the lumpectomy and radiation and gone straight for bilateral mastectomies.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Also alarming was the California Fivespined Ips beetle’s first occurrence in Western Washington.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

Based in large part on three major clinical trials published in 2018, international guidelines no longer recommend the routine use of aspirin to prevent the first occurrence of heart attack or stroke.

From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2024

If there are showers Monday, they will pale in comparison to the amount that fell the last time it rained on the parade in 2006 — the first occurrence in 51 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023

This curious circumstance, which had so much surprised and amused the travellers at its first occurrence, was now to appear again as soon as the conditions should become identical.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward