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The phrase "as a first instance" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used when referring to an initial occurrence or example of something.
Example: "As a first instance, we can look at the case of the missing documents."
Alternatives: "as a primary example" or "in the first case".
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Acadian historians speak of the British response as a first instance of "ethnic cleansing".
As a first instance of EPICO, we implemented the BLUEPRINT Data Analysis Portal BDAPP).
This demonstrates the utility of our method as a first instance profiling tool for a fast estimate of the community structure.
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The proposed coherence score can be used in a first instance as a filtering criterion when the aim is to relate functionality to gene expression by discarding functional modules that will never be found as co-expressing units.
* Although Grandmaster Flash's seminal The Message is the first record to exhibit hip-hop scratching, some credit Creedence Clearwater Revival and their 1968 song Walk On the Water as the first instance of a scratching-type turntable sound effect on a record.
Each new layer is a consequence of the appearance of an interacting range of 'novel qualities.' Their novelty is not merely temporal (such as the first instance of a particular geometric configuration), nor the first instance of a particular determinate of a familiar determinable (such as the first instance of mass 157.6819 kg in a contiguous hunk of matter).
ABC cast the interview as the first instance of a C.I.A. officer publicly confirming the use of waterboarding.
The 1993 movie "Father Hood" may not have been great, but it is distinguished in Berry's résumé as the first instance of a film role she won that had not been specifically designed for a black actress.
The absence of the intI along with the integron remnants in T. phagedenis serves as the first instance of an integron deletion event.
I was thinking of the plant bleeding heart (dicentra), but it's interesting you point to that: in another poem, I talk about a hummingbird probing "the bleeding heart's heart," so, clearly, the name bears its own symbolic violence and vulnerability, even if you think of it as in the first instance a plant name.
In the following, I will use the expression neoliberalism which is defined as: "in the first instance, a theory of political, economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com