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Avoiding another wage-price spiral is the central bank’s primary focus, though it has not yet appeared in higher pay demands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Medicare is the primary or only source of healthcare for most older Americans.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Axiom has done the engineering - including, for the first time, a backup cooling loop in case the primary fails.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The primary goals of the trip include testing the abilities of NASA's Orion spacecraft, as well as a rendezvous with lunar landers developed by the private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Although they did not know it then, the steel reactor vessel had been breached, and the radioactive fuel was oozing into the drywell, the open space in the primary containment chamber.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing primary
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 2
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