Preliminary stage of a written work.
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My stories tend to change hugely between first draft and final draft.
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The first draft contained a list of other more recent genealogical material.
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If journalism is history's first draft, historians must be kept quite busy.
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Maybe a newsman writes a news story, which is history's first draft.
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Henderson has been credited with the honor of preparing the first draft.
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Stevenson burned his first draft, and rewrote the whole in three days.
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We wrote the first draft of the agenda together with Bob Bland.
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So here's the first draft of the Forbidden Fruit bill for y'all.
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If this were a book, Cordelia wouldn't have survived the first draft.
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Take this piece: my first draft mentioned three men and no women.
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No, h-he only saw the first draft of the two first Acts.
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Well I wrote the first draft when I was producing Talladega Nights.
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Soon Hindemith was able to dispatch a first draft with a note attached:
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Week 5: Drafting and editing No first draft is ever perfect.
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The first draft is expected by the end of this year.
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The new version of the curriculum has abandoned the first draft's chronological approach.
