prime
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But the prime minister clearly pointed to a possible shake-up of the council tax system, where those with the most expensive properties might have to pay considerably more.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Netanyahu is expected to attend the funeral and meet with Trump, a win for the prime minister after weeks of lobbying for a White House sit-down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"You can clap now," a Downing Street official with a clipboard instructed the staff eagerly lining the halls of No 10 in the moments before the new prime minister walked in.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Sun leads with Andy Burnham's "dead ringer", who calls herself "Mandy Burnham" on social media, placed next to the new prime minister.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Yoshida was not only lying to his bosses at TEPCO, he was also defying an order from the prime minister of Japan.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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The good news is that today the enormous influx of new private capital into defense technology is putting competitive pressure on the primes, and the big manufacturers are responding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Riemann Hypothesis, often considered the most difficult and important problem in all of mathematics, would serve as a Rosetta stone revealing the secrets of the primes.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Our joint approach brings together three leading global defence primes at the heart of UK combat air capability, offering the UK a next-generation, cost‑effective, capable and reliable solution," a BAE Systems spokesperson said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
While defense primes do have exposure to newer technologies, more of their revenue comes from established programs, said Herbert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Here, the Devil as it were primes the pump.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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In an information environment already primed for suspicion of institutions, the director’s silence read as confirmation that something was being withheld.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
When a mostly unknown, 21-year-old Ms. Salvant arrived at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition in 2010 and won, she seemed primed to become her generation’s great jazz singer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
In the fifth over, Sooryavanshi looked primed to attack the off-spin of Will Jacks, only to run past a flatter one and be stumped.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
With a holiday-shortened week and a heat wave upon much of the country, investors are primed to look on the sunny side.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
This was the gold rush for geeks, a special time in history, the Internet moment, and he was primed to take advantage of that, to stake his claim.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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Nasdaq is changing its procedures to put SpaceX in funds based on it and priming the pump to do the same with Anthropic and OpenAI, which have historically burned through cash.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
As Barron’s wrote last November, the company has been priming investors for the loss of Apple’s sales for years, and it may already be factored into the stock price.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
And the earlier the snow melts, the more time plants and soils have to dry out in the summer heat, priming the landscape for large wildfires, Schwartz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Taken together, these two lines of research—the broad immune priming revealed by Covid mRNA vaccines and the precision targeting achieved by cancer-specific mRNA therapies—are beginning to converge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
So she held on, taking huge gulps of air, tensing her muscles, priming them for flight.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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