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Is there any way that the Germans rather than the British could have been the ones to deploy dreadnoughts first?

Or could the timing of the German naval building program have been delayed such that Germany has nothing like the Tirpitz Laws in place until all its planned ships of the line are to be dreadnoughts? Assume until after 1906 Germany is building only at its early and mid-1890s rates and it spike in building only occurs after the technological transition.

If this were the case, how would the naval race change and how would the budgetary, political and diplomatic burden have fallen differently on Britain and Germany?
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