Sentence examples for earliest citations from inspiring English sources

One of the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest citations of the word in a specifically political context dates back to 1926.

"Perhaps surprisingly, many of these abbreviations for common (and not so common) phrases predate the worldwide web, with the Usenet newsgroup communities of the late 1980s and early 1990s providing most of our earliest citations," writes Dent on an OED blog.

But these are the earliest citations of the existence of Jewish communities so widely dispersed.

The earliest citation supporting that usage dates to 1919.

(The earliest citation Carkeet gives, 1984, lends some support to this notion).

The earliest citation is in Edward Martin's 1909 book, "The Wayfarer in New York".

The earliest citation Mr. Shapiro could find attributes this quotation to Stewart Brand, quoted in a 1984 Washington Post article.

In the sense General Sanchez had in mind, earliest citation so far comes in from Barry Popik of New York.

The earliest citation of Yippie! is supplied by Merriam-Webster, from an Everybody's Magazine of 1914: "Yip-pee, Andreas!

The earliest citation of the phrase I can find, and one that suggests earlier military use, is by Robert Fox, a reporter for The Daily Telegraph, in 1991.

Its earliest citation in Oxford is March 1975, but Adam Macqueen's official history, Private Eye: The First 50 Years, gives the origin as March 1973.