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Examples of primal in a Sentence
the primal theme of the essay is toleration of religious diversity
there was a period of primal idealism after the founding of the republic and before the rise of partisan politics
Recent Examples on the Web
Rock is the perfect outlet for that, too — for communicating something that can be so primal and entirely consuming without discernible rhyme or reason.
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Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
Filmed in black-and-white, with interior shots full of shadows and exterior shots full of swirling London fog, the film offers a clever inversion of the primal trope of light as a symbol of knowledge.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Enlarge / Imaging setup with primal and dual configurations.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
But genetic researchers published a sort of landmark paper in the journal Nature that showed, no, in actual fact, this is one of the most primal groups of cells.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
With eternal erasure bearing down, Melfi had been rescued from the ranks of the unclaimed, a classification with powerful, even primal, connotations.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
And while not delineated by movement, its moods took dramatic swings from anguish, exhaustion and joy to sublime resignation and pure frustration (i.e. a primal scream from all four members).
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
According to Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster for Light Years, much of our gawking is driven by a primal impulse to search nepo baby faces for recognizable genetic similarities and contrasts with their famous parents, and to praise or shame them accordingly.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
His work is an aural document of the slaughterhouse on the other side of the wall (the gunfire, the shouts) while Mica Levi’s score is an abstracted primal scream.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
Filmed in black-and-white, with interior shots full of shadows and exterior shots full of swirling London fog, the film offers a clever inversion of the primal trope of light as a symbol of knowledge.
—Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Enlarge / Imaging setup with primal and dual configurations.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
But genetic researchers published a sort of landmark paper in the journal Nature that showed, no, in actual fact, this is one of the most primal groups of cells.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
With eternal erasure bearing down, Melfi had been rescued from the ranks of the unclaimed, a classification with powerful, even primal, connotations.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
And while not delineated by movement, its moods took dramatic swings from anguish, exhaustion and joy to sublime resignation and pure frustration (i.e. a primal scream from all four members).
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
According to Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster for Light Years, much of our gawking is driven by a primal impulse to search nepo baby faces for recognizable genetic similarities and contrasts with their famous parents, and to praise or shame them accordingly.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
His work is an aural document of the slaughterhouse on the other side of the wall (the gunfire, the shouts) while Mica Levi’s score is an abstracted primal scream.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Primal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primal. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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