primary
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California’s gubernatorial primary might not be decided for days or weeks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The primary drag on the ETI in May was the share of small firms reporting that jobs are “not able to be filled right now,” which dropped to its lowest level since May 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Details of the Labour government's new strategy are expected to be published shortly, but the government said it would place a "major, explicit emphasis on socio-economic background as a primary driver of unequal opportunity".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
As of 2021, there were 2.1 million grandparents with primary responsibility for their grandchildren.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Although they did not know it then, the steel reactor vessel had been breached, and the radioactive fuel was oozing into the drywell, the open space in the primary containment chamber.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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