primitive
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The researchers concluded that all three belonged to a primitive stem lineage of insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Despite the relatively primitive state of world models, tech luminaries are piling in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
I have certain genres that I always check out: I’m particularly into Jamaican gospel now, which is kind of primitive and not reggae, very illuminated, great singers.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
This spawned a series of comical situations, much slapstick and the use of fairly primitive special effects, mainly sped-up film.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In him only a little of the primitive is left.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In our view, these are the computational primitives of the system.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025
“Building in primitives meaningfully expands your degrees of freedom,” Jassy wrote to shareholders in the letter released Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
These omissions feel particularly glaring in light of how Aly excoriates the scholars of the era for viewing the islanders as history-less primitives who simply “died out” after contact with the modern world.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
The language is made up of geometric primitives, including basic building blocks of shapes, as well as rules that dictate how these can be combined to produce symmetries and patterns.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
Now, I suppose you’re going to say, but, Mister Ibis, these people were primitives, they didn’t have radio controls and vitamin pills and jet airplanes.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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