first fruits

NOUN

first crop harvested

Synonyms

WEAK

bang for the buck crop fruits harvest output payoff produce yield

Example Sentences

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At the company’s annual developers conference this spring, we’ll likely see the first fruits of Apple’s AI collaboration with Google.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

Diogo Rau, Lilly’s chief information and digital officer, cautioned that it still might take years to get the first fruits of AI-powered drug discovery into the hands of patients, likely into the 2030s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

This week sees the first fruits of that venture, as she releases her fourth album, Venus, on her Sommer House imprint.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024

As the effects of the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV- 2 continue to recede, trials of Long Covid treatments may serve up their first fruits.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 2, 2024

The soul was the body that fed the tobacco, and the spirit was the blood that watered the cotton, and these created the first fruits of the American garden.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates