primer

Example Sentences

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Mrie’s memoir is a useful primer, if hardly the last word, on the complexities of the civil war and the shortcomings of the rebel forces.

From Los Angeles Times

And they give us another book, Venceremos, a primer for the students.

From Literature

Senate in 2002, for a primer on the Fourth Amendment, and what the changes in the ICE memo mean.

From Salon

Director Raoul Peck, a consistently sharp exfoliator of tricky subjects, turns his movie into both a historical primer of the author’s eventful life and a guide to recognizing tomorrow’s fascists.

From Los Angeles Times

Now, some 70 years later, almost half the Bruins roster needed a primer on what it means to play the Trojans.

From Los Angeles Times