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primordial

[prahy-mawr-dee-uhl] / praɪˈmɔr di əl /


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If anything, after a few days spent dipping my T. rex hands into the cool primordial sludge of the dinosaur fandom, Panella’s sentiment feels like an understatement.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

If primordial black holes are common and frequently exploding, why are such events not seen more often?

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Symbols lose their value if we forget where they came from, if we lose connection with their primordial origin.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

As he admired the innards of a primordial iPhone, Cook found himself surrounded by artifacts that trace the history of Apple from a startup in a garage to the most iconic company in America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

This led into an even longer argument—hard to follow and, to me, intensely boring—about whether Hesiod’s primordial Chaos was simply empty space or chaos in the modern sense of the word.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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