Foremost and Original

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Foremost adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.

Usage example: when the foremost person in line tripped, everyone had to stop

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Original and foremost are semantically related. in order topic. In some cases you can use "Original" instead an adjective "Foremost".

Original adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.

Usage example: the original plan had to be discarded when the situation changed drastically

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Foremost and original are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foremost" instead an adjective "Original".

The opposite of Covered Up, although the "first and foremost" version might itself have Covered Up the real original.

Source: First and Foremost
The foremost example of this is the Phoenix, who is his defender in the Alternate Timeline instead of his doom because he avoids the blunder of his original timeline's self.

Source: Characters / X-Men Film Series: Professor Charles Xavier aka: Professor Charles Francis Xavier
Foremost being Kamek, but to an extent King Boo and Bowser himself (original NES game had him using Black Magic to take over).

Source: Evil Sorcerer aka: Evil Sorceress

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