primitive
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In many ways he was still very primitive, but he liked people a great deal and would lean against your leg to be petted.
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The sun was just beginning to set, and the street outside was primitive, nothing more than packed dirt between poorly built wooden houses.
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I have climbed the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, and hunted bull elk in the primitive area of Idaho.
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These primitive objects, known as planetesimals, are leftover building blocks from planet formation.
From Science Daily
"It's a primitive sport, almost instinctive for human beings," Yuji Ano, president of the tournament's organising committee, told AFP.
From Barron's
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