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The phrase "at first feels" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an initial impression or sensation about something before further experience or understanding changes that perception. Example: "At first feels overwhelming, but as you get used to it, it becomes manageable."
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She was never daring when she was young and at first feels adventurous in the tree.
Cannabis user Simon smokes a joint and at first feels giggly, talkative and craves food, before the side effects of the drug take over.
Because of the popularity of such books, Zhang's memoir, with its arc of resistance and personal struggle, at first feels familiar.
The expanded telling of the tale at first feels long-winded and, in Christopher Cowell's rhyming translation, loses no opportunity for gags, leaving an uncertainty of tone.
What at first feels revolutionary, however, can swiftly devolve into routine.
He at first feels protected by the bags of candy he limply threatens to throw at the policeman, who has turned his attention from Brittany to Richard's naked torso.
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By her own account, Ms. Sills at first felt no great itch to play Elizabeth.
Greenville had at first felt some surprise that one of the defense attorneys, Mr. Thomas Wofford, had accepted the case.
But, if she at first felt uncertain as she embarked on such alien terrain, the newly named Hillary Clinton seems to have quickly recovered her characteristic self-confidence.
He at first felt ashamed to tell friends where he worked, much less that his jobs included carrying coffee and applying makeup to the sole human character, Fran Allison.
So the exhibition at first felt somewhat misleading.
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