primo
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The school year is barely a month old, but for college students hoping to land a primo internship next summer it might already be too late.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was a primo gig: Kelly got an hour of the Today show, a Sunday-night newsmagazine program, and a correspondent role during breaking news and political coverage.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
It’s an extra $60 for the VIP upgrade, which comes with some kind of primo parking.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
In the meantime, Logan’s primo, Connor, strolls up to Marcia and offers to purchase the house.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2023
Ever since kindergarten, the primo nerd, bar none, had been Hugh Winkleman.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
The silky, beef-infused onion sauce gets spooned over the pasta primi course before the chuck roast arrives as the fall-apart main event.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021
The learned philologue Monaci has established a very remarkable critical text in his Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
Oh, the primi were very well! and in fact, had all been flat together, it would have been unnoticeable; while the tempi were marked so clearly, no one had time to criticise and analyze.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
At the end--just before the date, and the four colophonic verses of the printer--we read: "Finis primi ptis lecture dni Bartoli super ffto nouo."
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Cassini, his son and his grandson were only primi inter pares.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
“My primos just went to one of the most prestigious festivals in Monaco and they won first place. I wanna be like my cousins and do what they’re doing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Police say that after a co-ordinated effort between Colombian and British authorities, a criminal group called "los primos" was dismantled.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2023
“It’s a place where people call each other primos and parientes” — cousins and relatives — Garcia, 50, said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
“There was a lot of misinformation being passed around on WhatsApp and that’s where the primos and tías were reading,” Montes said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
Robinson despised the old-fashioned Ethics and Physics, but with the new Cartesian or Experimental Philosophy he was inter primos.
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
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