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UK
/pɹaɪmˈɛɹəli/
]
[ US /pɹaɪˈmɛɹəɫi/ ]
[ US /pɹaɪˈmɛɹəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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for the most part
he is mainly interested in butterflies -
of primary import
this is primarily a question of economics
it was in the first place a local matter
How To Use primarily In A Sentence
- Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
- Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
- This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
- These effects are primarily due to the loss of any helper T cell that can interact with the B lymphocyte correctly.
- No matter that there were no green beans or zucchinies or that bok choy is Asian not Mediterranean, minestrone is primarily a vegetable soup and so long as you have a couple of primary flavours right, the rest will take care of itself. At My Table
- Vertical circulation is primarily via lifts just inboard from these stairs, in a bull-nosed service tower sheathed in stainless steel.
- But unlike Karl Barth or Paul Tillich, for example, who saw themselves as fusing philosophy and theology, Rosenstock-Huessy refused to see himself primarily as a philosopher or theologian ” though when the term philosopher was qualified by the preceding ˜social™, he was more willing to accept that designation. [ Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
- Primarily they reproduce asexually, which they accomplish by binary fission, or simple cell division.
- He broke with the mainstream conservatism in the early 1960s, primarily over issues of foreign policy and military expansionism.
- Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss