primary
/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹ.i/ verb C2- To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- To take part in a primary election.
He/she/it primaries · Past primaried · Past participle primaried · -ing form primarying
Verb forms
- Base form
- primary
- He/she/it
- primaries
- Past
- primaried
- Past participle
- primaried
- -ing form
- primarying
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Children start running and racing against each other early in primary school.
However, its primary directive was to ensure the wellbeing of its owner.
We must thoughtfully ask ourselves what intangible, human qualities we sacrifice when our primary mode of written expression becomes entirely standardized.
My primary focus remains the extraction and analysis of deep ice cores, which are essentially frozen archives of atmospheric history.
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