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The phrase "at first told" is not correct in standard written English
It may be intended to convey that something was communicated initially, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear. Example: "At first told about the plan, she was skeptical of its success."
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Ms. Citrone, for example, was at first told she had high testosterone.
Margerie at first told friends that there had been a suicide note but then said that there wasn't.
By one account, the cadets were at first told by their captors that they were going to be part of a prisoner exchange.
The chair of the commission, Justice Peter McClellan, at first told Pell the commission would wait to see if he was better by February.
United States military officials at first told journalists that she had received gunshot wounds and that she was rescued after a firefight.
Mr. Soltys's mother at first told detectives that her son seemed normal when he arrived at her house to pick up his son.
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Mr. Carlo, whose A.L.S. had been diagnosed 10 months earlier, did not at first tell her the truth about why he was limping.
The company defended the software at first, telling users it was "confident about our map quality".
She resisted at first, telling him they should move to a different location in order to capture the perfect landscape shot instead, but finally gave in.
He doesn't let on exactly what it is, at first, telling Parappa that he found it around the back of Beard Burger.
At first telling investors that she was going to charge a high price for a treatment for people like her daughter gave Rothblatt "a sour taste" in her mouth.
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