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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a first female" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when referring to the first woman to achieve a specific milestone or position, but it is more common to use "the first female" instead.
Example: "She was the first female astronaut to walk in space."
Alternatives: "the first woman" or "the inaugural female".
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All the guff about a first female president was just guff; for them, Clinton was a robotic corporate shill.
People talk about Margaret Thatcher being the first female prime minister, but we could easily have had a first female prime minister in Barbara Castle.
Australian celebrations of a first female prime minister were curiously muted and while Rudd's attempt to replace Gillard failed, he is still an aspirant.
If a first female president were someone like, say, Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin, or another woman who knew how to play the game and win, I wouldn't have been surprised.
The shock result dashed hopes that a first female president could serve as a powerful feminist global figurehead, amid growing concerns that a Trump administration could cut aid funds for some of the most vulnerable women in the world.
But there are plenty who pour cold water on the idea that where one leads, others will follow, or that the election of a first female mayor – or indeed a first woman as a country's president or prime minister – changes anything much.
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Weeks or months later, a third female's voice came into my life.
Later in the day, they tend to search for a second female to mate with.
An Austrian woman was killed along with a second female foreigner, whose nationality was still being verified.
A third female country singer, Skylar Laine, 17, of Brandon, Miss., also made it to the final 24.
Two of them were definitely an adult male and an adult female, and there may also have been a second female.
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