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primary process

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noun

Psychoanalysis.
  1. the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.


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Those delegates went on to back reforms to the party's primary process that made it easier for insurgent candidacies like Jackson to compete for the party's presidential nomination without backing from the Democratic establishment.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

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

“In a primary process, voters would be asking, ‘Could she be the nominee?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

Our primary process is in shambles – but the outcome has never been in doubt.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024

Such is, so to speak, the primary process of modern warfare.

From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)