Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective First to play in a game; not reserved as a substitute; -- of members of a team. Also used in non-sports contexts to mean
first-rate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective describing the members of a
sports team whoplay regularly at the start of amatch (rather than being substituted on)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being a regular member of a team
- adjective of members of a team; not substitutes
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Examples
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While female gender doesn't necessarily guarantee insight into women's lives, powerful first-string male critics regularly demonstrate a distressing lack of interest in plays in which women writers craft female protagonists.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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While female gender doesn't necessarily guarantee insight into women's lives, powerful first-string male critics regularly demonstrate a distressing lack of interest in plays in which women writers craft female protagonists.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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That is first-string, varsity material on Team Tea Party right there.
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While female gender doesn't necessarily guarantee insight into women's lives, powerful first-string male critics regularly demonstrate a distressing lack of interest in plays in which women writers craft female protagonists.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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While female gender doesn't necessarily guarantee insight into women's lives, powerful first-string male critics regularly demonstrate a distressing lack of interest in plays in which women writers craft female protagonists.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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As a former first-string critic and current Drama Desk member, the protocol breach represents an important opportunity to review how utterly outmoded the protocol really is.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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As a former first-string critic and current Drama Desk member, the protocol breach represents an important opportunity to review how utterly outmoded the protocol really is.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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The first-string couldn't get in the end zone in the last two intrasquad scrimmages against the defense.
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As a former first-string critic and current Drama Desk member, the protocol breach represents an important opportunity to review how utterly outmoded the protocol really is.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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While female gender doesn't necessarily guarantee insight into women's lives, powerful first-string male critics regularly demonstrate a distressing lack of interest in plays in which women writers craft female protagonists.
Jill Dolan: Tonys 2011: Where Are the Women? Jill Dolan 2011
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