primitive
Example Sentences
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This meant that France labored under a primitive monetary system.”
"Then we're using primitive tools... and being very careful because the stones here are 1,200 or 1,300 years old."
From BBC
Fragile materials such as primitive cells and microbial mats were buried, squeezed, heated, and fractured as the planet's crust shifted over billions of years.
From Science Daily
“It would take a miracle to find decent caviar in this primitive land,” he remarked on his way out, “but a plate of smoked herring would do nicely in a pinch.”
From Literature
The excavations of the Antikythera shipwreck, in 1900, marked the beginnings of underwater excavations carried out in what is regarded as a technologically primitive manner.
From Literature
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