Primary

Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.

the church of Christ, in its primary institution

, Book II, Chapter VIII These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.

Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.

In recent primaries, for example, nearly 4% of absentees were rejected in Philadelphia; 8% in Kentucky; and 20% in parts of New York City.

Before Americans pick a president in November, they get to pick the candidates in a series of primaries and caucuses. […] Biden could still win New Hampshire’s primary through a write-in campaign, but the first sanctioned Democratic contest is in South Carolina in February.

Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

`Good Lord, look at that swiftlet, it's got two primaries missing from its left wing!'

By adding and subtracting the three primaries, cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.

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In the New England town where he ran a “couple of night clubs” . he was “primarying the mayor."

What political facts of life underpin the hopes and dreams of democratic politicians who would take on the awesome task of “primarying” a two-term incumbent governor

Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of “primarying,” a challenge to an incumbent on the grounds that he or she is not sufficiently partisan.

The ad calls for loyal Tea Party members to step forward and run against all eighty-seven of the traitors in order to primary them.

These instances of “primarying,” according to many, make Congress more partisan and extreme.

According to Boatright, 774 instances of challengers “primarying” sitting House incumbents occurred between 1970 and 2010.

Democrats have made “primarying” a key technique for shifting the balance of power in Congress to the left.

In the last midterm election, every member of Congress who was defeated in a primary lost to a candidate who was more ideologically extreme. The message that sends to every other member is clear: If you work across the aisle to solve problems, prepare to be primaried and potentially defeated.

Richard Hopkins, an epidemiologist who spent 19 years at the Florida Department of Health, told the Post, in reference to DeSantis administration officials, “They keep hoping it’s going to go away by itself. I don’t know what’s going on -- whether they’re afraid that they will get primaried by someone to their right if they take appropriate public health action.”

Trump has most Republican congressmen leery of opposing him on any issue, mainly out of fear of getting "primaried" by a Trump loyalist.

“My message to Kevin McCarthy is, take all of her committee assignments away … also, don’t support her when she runs for re-election again and try to get her primaried. If you say this is not your party, actually call it out and hold her accountable,” Hogg told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day.”

Both were worried that Bailey would break some of their delegate commitments to keep them from primarying.

First, I'd challenge my opponent for the convention nomination. If I didn't prevail at the convention, that would be my answer. I wouldn't “primary” him—meaning, I wouldn't force a statewide primary election if he and I were the only two candidates in the field.

“That’s the fun part - finding out who’s the unknown person who may want to primary to get one of the positions,” Kolenberg said.