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Discover LudwigThe phrase "first occurrence" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the initial or first instance of something happening or appearing in a sentence. Example: The first occurrence of the word "apple" in the story appears in the second paragraph.
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…the first occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games.
A 1968 ad for a Hewlett-Packard desktop calculator was not the first occurrence.
Thus, the Silurian-Devonian boundary is anchored to the first occurrence of specific index fossils.
The base of each zone is defined by the first occurrence of the taxon.
Czeizel A, Dudas I. Prevention of first occurrence of neural tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation.
The Chamonix Games were the first occurrence of the Winter Olympic Games.
strstr searches for the first occurrence of the substring needle in the string haystack.
Abstract: We report the first occurrence of a natural quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry.
Unconventional or specialist abbreviations should be defined at their first occurrence in the text.
And is it true that the same novel features the first occurrence of the phrase "the great unwashed"?
The latest injection was Samuelsson's fourth in recent seasons, but this is the first occurrence of any swelling...
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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.

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