primary group

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.

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Etymology

Origin of primary group

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

On Sunday, the primary group serving as a conduit for those complaints, La Resistencia, teamed with Tsuru for Solidarity, made up of descendants of those incarcerated during World War II, to call for the facility to be shut down.

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Fourth lines rarely score as often as the Kraken’s did and this season’s primary group of Tye Kartye, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Kailer Yamamoto has focused more on the traditional forechecking and defensive side expected in that role.

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It’s possible the Kraken could move a forward, or perhaps even two, into the main power-play unit from the primary group assigned to Tuesday night’s game against Calgary — which featured Dunn, McCann, Eberle, Schwartz and first-round draft pick Shane Wright.

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Iwasaki noted that 71% of the patients in the primary group had been hospitalized, limiting the ability to conclude that the biological factors were equally relevant for people with mild initial infections.

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The primary group of patients included 209 people, ages 18 to 89, who were infected with the coronavirus during 2020 or early 2021 and were seen at Swedish Medical Center or an affiliated clinic.

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