primo
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The airline is even going to restrict access to its primo Delta One Lounges beginning next year if you buy its new basic-business ticket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was a primo gig: Kelly got an hour of the Today show, a Sunday-night newsmagazine program, and a correspondent role during breaking news and political coverage.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
It’s an extra $60 for the VIP upgrade, which comes with some kind of primo parking.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
To an Italian, they're completely incomprehensible, because pasta is a primo piatto, a first course, and meat is a secondo, and never the twain shall meet.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2023
Ever since kindergarten, the primo nerd, bar none, had been Hugh Winkleman.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
The silky, beef-infused onion sauce gets spooned over the pasta primi course before the chuck roast arrives as the fall-apart main event.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
Cassini, his son and his grandson were only primi inter pares.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Oh, the primi were very well! and in fact, had all been flat together, it would have been unnoticeable; while the tempi were marked so clearly, no one had time to criticise and analyze.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
They have never been more than their name, "Fuerst," implies, the first and foremost of German freemen, "primi inter pares."
From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
Antonio Pucci, in the eighty-fifth canto of his Centiloquio, distinctly states that Giotto carved the earlier ones, i primi intagli fe con bello stile, and Pucci was almost Giotto's contemporary.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
Police say that after a co-ordinated effort between Colombian and British authorities, a criminal group called "los primos" was dismantled.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2023
“It’s a place where people call each other primos and parientes” — cousins and relatives — Garcia, 50, said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
“There was a lot of misinformation being passed around on WhatsApp and that’s where the primos and tías were reading,” Montes said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
My younger primos laughed that we’d want to go see a washed-up player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
Robinson despised the old-fashioned Ethics and Physics, but with the new Cartesian or Experimental Philosophy he was inter primos.
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
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