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• Yet for many of us, Jones was, first and foremost, a voice.
  — K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
• Tosca comes to the romance genre first and foremost as a fan.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
• This is an opera that is, first and foremost, a tribute to opera.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• You’re known first and foremost as a straight-up spitter.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• Try to work hard and be a good person first and foremost and a good teammate.
  — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
• But first and foremost, the music has to be the most exciting thing.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• The height of your fake Christmas tree first and foremost depends on the height of your ceiling, of course.
  — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2024
• It’s always been a love story to me, first and foremost.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
• As for those reasons why, first and foremost: the academics.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 24 Feb. 2023
• But in the case of the Colorado QB, the hype stems first and foremost from his famous family.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
• For Hwang, awards aside, the show must entertain, first and foremost.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
• Grammy night was, first and foremost, a night of women.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2024
• New York needs to add to the starting rotation, first and foremost.
  — Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• But of course, first and foremost, is the protection of the Red Hills Salamander.
  — Mary Helene Hall | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2023
• Our thoughts are first and foremost with the victims, their families and loved ones.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
• Craig Melvin is many things, but the Today host is first and foremost a Southerner.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 May 2024
• Mighty Doom Doom is a first-person shooter first and foremost.
  — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
• Tell me about your beauty tips–any rules or gold standards, first and foremost?
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
• And first and foremost, that means driving down the high cost of living in the United States of America.
  — NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
• Because a flight attendant's job, first and foremost, is to keep you safe, not serve you snacks.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2024
• The singer’s style can be defined, first and foremost, by its sexiness.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2025
• While Yeti is first and foremost a brand for those who love the outdoors, Yeti is also a go-to brand for tailgaters across the country.
  — Josie Howell | [e-mail], al, 25 Aug. 2023
• But Williams was, first and foremost, a winner, one of the most dominant ever.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• The film is sold first and foremost by its precise performances.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• There’s smoke first and foremost on the palate, followed by notes of vanilla, lemon, rubber, and black pepper.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2023
• So Far This raises a whole lot of questions, first and foremost is what the goat people’s outies are like.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
• Sarah Wyman: Yeah, Mary Willard was first and foremost a professor of chemistry.
  — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• Cookie Week is first and foremost about joy — about getting in the kitchen and expressing your love through food.
  — Vaughn Vreeland David Marchese, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Every artist of any tribe is first and foremost a storyteller.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 June 2024
• There’s some good stuff to be found in this Sydney Pollack film — first and foremost is the chemistry between Ford and Thomas — but the movie never finds its focus and completely falls apart by the end.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025