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For many years, researchers suspected that genetic damage inside mitochondria was the primary cause of their decline.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
"It means parents and primary carers can come in and have the dignity of choosing the clothes that they want for their kids," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Over the last few months, Walker has been eager to get back on air, especially with the local primary elections this month and the coming midterms in November.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Increasingly, security executives say, the primary bottleneck occurs after those flaws are uncovered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Historians have two primary theories to explain what allowed the Europeans to thoroughly colonize the Indigenous lands in North America.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing primary
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 2
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