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  • present participle of prime.
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priming

[prahy-ming] / ˈpraɪ mɪŋ /




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Priming, painting, re-painting, I feel something shift and open.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Priming everyone to move fast at the first sign of potential calamity.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022

Priming for summer found some “Real” madras shorts!

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022

Priming individuals with words related to ‘hostility’ made them more likely to judge the actions of a character in a story as hostile, a 1979 study found.

From Nature • Dec. 10, 2019

Priming is not, it should be said, like brainwashing.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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