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primarily

[prahy-mair-uh-lee, -mer-, prahy-mer-uh-lee, -mer-uh-] / praɪˈmɛər ə li, -ˈmɛr-, ˈpraɪ mɛr ə li, -mər ə- /




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Marmoush is primarily a number nine, but he has rarely been confined to one role across the front line.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Working primarily as a school librarian — with book talks and storytelling sessions — helped her “fill her performing aspirations,” she recalled.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

More messages, many of which are designed primarily to be read by bots, will stay unread by colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

We have a CPA, but we primarily use him for preparing our taxes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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