How to Use first papers in a Sentence

first papers

plural noun
  • So some of the first papers on this just came out a few years ago.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This was the same journal where Bem had published one of the first papers of his career, way back in 1965.
    Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 17 May 2017
  • Nordhaus published his first paper about the DICE model in 1992.
    Gilbert E. Metcalf, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
  • One of the first papers on friendships among autistic people appeared just last year.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The pair teamed up more than two years ago when the first paper describing both of their diagnoses appeared.
    Temma Ehrenfeld, Quartz, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The first paper exploiting the data appeared on the arXiv preprint server on the same day.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But the first papers published after the Bullet Cluster analysis showed that, maybe, just maybe, all is not well.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Reaching into its archives, the company found the original 1888 patent for the first paper straw.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 24 June 2018
  • The 2018 study was Shahar’s first paper with senior authorship.
    NBC News, 25 June 2019
  • In their first paper, Freeman and Torralba showed that the changing light on the wall of a room, filmed with nothing fancier than an iPhone, can be processed to reveal the scene outside the window.
    Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2018
  • On its website, the AAO disputes that the first paper shows 32% of those studied had conjunctivitis, since some of the symptoms listed in the study could have been caused by other factors.
    Ian Richardson, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Wenzlau posted his first paper on the project a little over a year ago, and researchers at Stanford have been using machine learning to make memes for nearly two years.
    Angela Watercutter, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020
  • In 2018 Darnall published one of the first papers to provide an answer: a very slow, personalized dose reduction.
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2019
  • One of the very first papers on the monetary return of art investing was published in 1986 and written by the late eminent economist William Baumol.
    Kathryn Graddy, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Berkshire even set up a newspaper-tossing contest at its famed annual investor meeting, with Buffett throwing the first paper to kick off the event.
    Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Get our daily newsletter His first paper on the subject was published almost exactly 50 years ago.
    The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • My plan eliminates the need for complicated math and indexing as mentioned in Biggs’ first paper.
    Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 22 May 2020
  • The first paper, published today, examines the real-world feasibility of the two breakout bots.
    John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The first paper money was used in China in the 13th century, as explorer Marco Polo discovered.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The first paper comes from a group of scientists who have worked to rapidly analyze a number of extreme weather events over the past few years, including flooding in Europe and Louisiana last year.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2017
  • The first paper, published in Science, showed that children infected with measles lost between 11% and 73% of their antibodies after infection.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, four years after Trade Park Corporation signed its first papers with local officials, there is nothing to show for the project but angry investors, some stakes in the ground and a few dirt roads already being reclaimed by jungle.
    NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Major volcanic eruptions can cause temporary cooling events—as the first paper demonstrates, these cooling events may differ from place to place, but the effects overall do tend to be strong enough to make a dent in global average temperatures.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 25 July 2019
  • Back in 2001, Enfield published one of the first papers that analyzed the relationship between ocean temperatures and rainfall levels in South Florida.
    Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The first paper, published in January in Nature Human Behaviour, provided both context and a method for improving transparency.
    Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Her first paper found that this practice resulted in lower costs, and her second demonstrated fewer unintended pregnancies and abortions.
    Elizabeth Lawrence, USA TODAY, 8 July 2019
  • Her first papers suggesting ultrasound’s potential for offering an effective, less invasive form of fetal screening — available to women of any age — were published in 1985.
    Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The first paper calls for the pre-conception period to be redefined according to three perspectives: biological, individual and public health.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018

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