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in the first place

to begin with, originally

🇰🇷 애초에🇯🇵 そもそも🇨🇳 首先、当初🇫🇷 au départ, pour commencer🇪🇸 en primer lugar, para empezar🇩🇪 überhaupt, von vornherein🇵🇹 para começar, antes de mais nada🇮🇹 in primo luogo, tanto per cominciare🇷🇺 вообще, изначально🇻🇳 ngay từ đầu

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Anyways, sidetrack, I ended up back at the grocery store, which is what I left my apartment for in the first place.
You don't even remember why you picked up your phone in the first place.
It's genuinely what helps me show up better in the first place.
I don't know why it's embarrassing in the first place.
I don't know why I had that in my backpack in the first place, but it made my base peel like crazy.
I went into Erewhon in the first place because Osulloc sent me a gift card to pick up their items at Erewhon.
This is the biblically accurate way that they styled this dress on the website, which is what inspired me in the first place.
are surfacing above the people that we chose to follow in the first place.
There's a reason why I went with the Mini in the first place.
It was never about everything going smoothly in the first place.

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