primary contact
Americannoun
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Secondary contacts are those who have not met the infected person but have been in close contact with a primary contact.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
Balwani was the primary contact for investor Daniel Grossman of PFM Management, Holmes said.
From The Verge • Nov. 23, 2021
Snowden’s primary contact with the publisher was his principal legal adviser, Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2019
Court filings made as part of the company’s legal settlement with the Justice Department, and EPA listed Cook as the primary contact for Equistar.
From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2018
This is entirely remedied by breaking the circuit elsewhere than at the primary contact, using a quick motion, and also by giving this breaking contact large surface and making it firm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
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