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Then we dive quite deeply into these interests through primary research, ethnographic research and interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
They first examined what happened when male mice were castrated, removing the primary source of testosterone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Bass disagreed, saying Raman had the primary power to remove the chief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
A Jersey politician said she thought cost-of-living pressures were not considered by the government when it chose to end a trial of free fruit in primary schools.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Her sense of style is the primary reason she is invited this evening.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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For the past 18 years, I’ve returned to Columbia often, for quadrennial presidential primaries, annual college football games, for college weddings and reunions and other big stories that somehow seem to always find South Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
On Friday, Bill Maher did a lengthy segment on his show “Real Time,” apologizing to the president for having said “almost none” of his endorsed candidates are winning their primaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
It didn't respond to a request for comment, but it has rejected suggestions that its influence is collapsing, saying hundreds of candidates it backed have won their primaries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
He became the latest party House incumbent to be ousted in the primaries.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
I noticed a man and a woman chatting with Mary Fernandez and some Lopez Cottage primaries.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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One former lawmaker, Dallas’ Jason Villalba, knows what it’s like to be primaried by a GOP rival backed by insurgent groups.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
"I see the biggest upswing in the local races. Someone who is 65 years old, a farmer and county commissioner, he could easily be primaried by a younger cat using the technology."
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
Manchin brushed off the warning, saying, “I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
“I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me. I’ve never run an election where I wasn’t primaried,” Mr. Manchin said.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
He will die a senator or be primaried and spend the rest of his life just hanging out around the Capitol.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2015
If he does, though, good luck to whichever next-big-thing in Massachusetts politics chooses to end their career by primarying him.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
In 1998, the Working Families Party began testing the strategy: primarying the worst incumbents, endorsing the best and running third-party races only when it made sense.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2019
In Rhode Island, it is former secretary of state Matt Brown and Bernie Sanders-organizer Aaron Regunberg primarying Raimondo and her lieutenant governor.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
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