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Roman has a 7.9-foot primary mirror, the same diameter as the Hubble Space Telescope's, along with two major scientific instruments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
“What I view as a primary indicator of the health of the space is demand, and as far as I can tell, the demand continues,” Casado said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Pablo: Next Level, a spin-off from the pre-school series Pablo, features an autistic lead character and this time he's heading to primary school.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Talbot noted that healthy embryonic development depends on stem cells forming all three primary cell types: endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was his mom and father, arguing about who was going to have primary custody of Nathan.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
Five of the 11 have either already lost primaries or announced their retirements, while the other six are plowing ahead with reelection bids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Tennessee held its primaries on Thursday, because Thursday primaries are just how Tennessee rolls.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
Voters in Michigan, Virginia and Washington state also cast their ballots in Democratic primaries on US House of Representatives candidates on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
In the final weeks of the primaries, Barack’s campaign began expanding my team to include a scheduler and a personal aide—Kristen Jarvis, a warmhearted former staffer from Barack’s U.S.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
In 2020, she primaried Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty for Ohio’s third district, which includes Columbus.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
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
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
"Right now Cantor is impregnable, but if we can make him vulnerable then he can be primaried," Hurd said.
From Reuters ● May 17, 2011
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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