prime
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The prime minister's office asked the public to avoid panic-buying and warned that price gouging was a criminal offence.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Since August, the smell of burning has filled the air around the small town surrounded by warehouses, making it a prime target for Moscow.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The prime minister has announced a £210m package to regenerate the UK's communities and high streets.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
And frankly, the happy prime minister would likely be only too glad to talk for as long as necessary about those favourite subjects.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The prime minister took his place in front of the microphone.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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The players once hailed as the country’s golden generation were older, slower, and looking at their primes in the rearview mirror.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Our joint approach brings together three leading global defence primes at the heart of UK combat air capability, offering the UK a next-generation, cost‑effective, capable and reliable solution," a BAE Systems spokesperson said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Report B primes a “Why you can’t trust collagen research” story.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
Big orders for missile replenishment should benefit all defense primes, but especially RTX, whose business is more missile-heavy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
He stayed up at night, trying to figure out what it is in the delivery of a tennis serve that primes his judgment.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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"What we found in patient samples was that intestinal cells are primed to die. Even in patients with essentially no symptoms, there's still this persistent problem sitting there."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The June to August season was defined by severe, back-to-back heatwaves that shut schools, dried up rivers and primed the land for devastating wildfires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It's a group at its peak and primed to build a legacy on.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Still and Jackson are primed to lead a possible rotation at cornerback as they did a season ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Beckendorf was manning two catapults the size of pickup trucks, already primed and aimed at Zeus’s Fist.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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Libyan Al-Marimi, also known as Masud, has denied making and priming the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Dumfries and Galloway on 21 December 1988.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Nasdaq is changing its procedures to put SpaceX in funds based on it and priming the pump to do the same with Anthropic and OpenAI, which have historically burned through cash.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
As Barron’s wrote last November, the company has been priming investors for the loss of Apple’s sales for years, and it may already be factored into the stock price.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Taken together, these two lines of research—the broad immune priming revealed by Covid mRNA vaccines and the precision targeting achieved by cancer-specific mRNA therapies—are beginning to converge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
I can’t make you reveal deeply personal details about your childhood by priming you with words like “nap” and “bottle” and “teddy bear.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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