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Applications go first to peer experts, who evaluate scholarly merit.

From Slate • May 14, 2026

She added: "He wanted me to go first. I told him he could go first."

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

The grandmotherly driving of today’s Waymos conjures images of two, excessively polite Midwesterners locked at an intersection, each beckoning the other to go first, back and forth in perpetuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

None started where most people’s minds go first: Am I safe?

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025

“Let us go first, Ploot,” asked Pete Redmarley, “it is my cotton.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell