secondary

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Lilly said Thursday that retatrutide, designed to be taken once a week, met the primary endpoint in a phase 3 clinical trial, as well as key secondary endpoints.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The rate increases would affect debt trading on the secondary market, where already-issued bonds are exchanged, he said.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The team said if water is collected from a stream there is no guarantee filtering alone will make the water safe to drink and recommended secondary treatment such as boiling or chemical treatments.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Using these methods, Angster and his colleagues reconstructed the history of two newly identified secondary faults within the Seattle Fault Zone.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos