primary process
Americannoun
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A team of international researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has now determined the primary process driving these large-scale blooms.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025
But that doesn’t excuse journalists from demanding more transparency of a candidate who sidestepped the entire primary process.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024
Presidential campaigns, meanwhile, were expecting the cold and dangerous travel conditions to hamper turnout for the Iowa caucuses, which are the opening contest in the monthslong Republican presidential primary process.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
Our primary process is in shambles – but the outcome has never been in doubt.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024
The psychic process which is admitted by the first system only I shall now call the primary process; and the one resulting from the inhibition of the second system I shall call the secondary process.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
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