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[prahy-mer-ee, -muh-ree] / ˈpraɪ mɛr i, -mə ri /


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And one incumbent, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, was forced into an early exit from his safe Republican seat by his primary rival, state Rep. Steve Toth of Conroe.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Dogra said welfare across all of their programmes is "a primary concern".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The race, which ratcheted up when Pelosi bypassed Wiener to endorse Chan in May, just before the June primary, had divided the Democratic Party.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

In its primary market of North America, the bike maker has recorded year-over-year retail-sales growth in each of the last four quarters, and is on track for the first full-year increase since 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Our primary form of communication now is online RPG games.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Election officials in California and Oregon also reported thousands more ballots rejected for arriving late during their primaries.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

For the past 18 years, I’ve returned to Columbia often, for quadrennial presidential primaries, annual college football games, for college weddings and reunions and other big stories that somehow seem to always find South Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Petersen said Unite Here had the largest ground operation of any union in the state during primaries in June and knocked on more than 300,000 doors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

It didn't respond to a request for comment, but it has rejected suggestions that its influence is collapsing, saying hundreds of candidates it backed have won their primaries.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the final weeks of the primaries, Barack’s campaign began expanding my team to include a scheduler and a personal aide—Kristen Jarvis, a warmhearted former staffer from Barack’s U.S.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

One former lawmaker, Dallas’ Jason Villalba, knows what it’s like to be primaried by a GOP rival backed by insurgent groups.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

"I see the biggest upswing in the local races. Someone who is 65 years old, a farmer and county commissioner, he could easily be primaried by a younger cat using the technology."

From Reuters ● May 30, 2023

Manchin brushed off the warning, saying, “I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me.”

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022

“I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me. I’ve never run an election where I wasn’t primaried,” Mr. Manchin said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

He will die a senator or be primaried and spend the rest of his life just hanging out around the Capitol.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2015

If he does, though, good luck to whichever next-big-thing in Massachusetts politics chooses to end their career by primarying him.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

In 1998, the Working Families Party began testing the strategy: primarying the worst incumbents, endorsing the best and running third-party races only when it made sense.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2019

In Rhode Island, it is former secretary of state Matt Brown and Bernie Sanders-organizer Aaron Regunberg primarying Raimondo and her lieutenant governor.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018


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