first discover

Frequency: 6.58.5 per million words

to be the first person to find something

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Examples (10)

  • Alexander Fleming was the scientist who first discovered penicillin in 1928.
  • When did explorers first discover the source of the Nile River?
  • The new exoplanet was first discovered using the Kepler Space Telescope.
  • It was in this small laboratory that the team first discovered the powerful compound.
  • She felt an incredible thrill when she first discovered her talent for music.
  • Historians are still debating who first discovered the ancient ruins.
  • We hope to be the ones who first discover a cure for the disease.
  • The miners who first discovered the giant crystal cave were astonished by its beauty.
  • Reading that book, I felt as if I was the one to first discover its hidden meaning.
  • The principle of gravity was first discovered by Isaac Newton, according to legend.