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The 1983 edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate introduced the practice of giving, in the etymologies, “dates of earliest occurrence,” data presumably derived from the Oxford English Dictionary (for, while Merriam and Random House maintained a citation file for the tracking of new words and senses, there was no point in duplicating work done long ago by Murray, et al.)
Should the earliest reporter, the most accurate one or the one most widely known today be memorialized?
5 is the earliest day of natural birth seen in unmanipulated pregnancy.
This removable whistle was actually a throwback to the earliest version of the whistling teakettle.
One recalls the earliest days of his career, when he toured the South in a Cadillac.