What does in the first place mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. (sequence, idiomatic) to begin with; earlier; first; at the start
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Perhaps they never learned how to drive in adverse conditions in the first place.
The truth of the matter is, we find racial profiling has a lot to do why African-American males are stopped in the first place.
The reason I was attracted to it in the first place is because people are absurd.
And it supplies a wealth of advice on deciding whether to go solo in the first place.
But what caused the cancer in the first place, and what can we do about it?
But these are small quibbles, and the greater value of this book is that it has its readers asking such questions in the first place.

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