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primarily

[prahy-mair-uh-lee, -mer-, prahy-mer-uh-lee, -mer-uh-] / praɪˈmɛər ə li, -ˈmɛr-, ˈpraɪ mɛr ə li, -mər ə- /




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Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Anthropic said it also identified a Chinese-government aligned operation that used Claude to track and surveil Uyghurs—an ethnic minority primarily based in Western China.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Rather than depending primarily on chemistry, the material itself is structured to provide the desired function.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

Alvarez’s intervention work primarily focused on using his gang contacts to help quash disputes and acting as a middleman between people scared to report crimes to police and law enforcement officials, according to Garcia-Leys.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

This great transformation has escaped proper attention because it does not have a label, and it does not have a label primarily because it is three transformations rolled into one.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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