first draft
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Duris, from Kickresume, agreed that, if you’re going to use AI for writing your résumé, you shouldn’t let it write your entire first draft.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 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
Indeed, Britain’s encouragement of the slave trade was one of the offenses he cited in his first draft of the Declaration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"I'd probably finished the first draft before it really became clear what was happening," said Doyle.
From BBC ● May 31, 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
