as in ancient
relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period
all life on Earth supposedly came from a primordial ooze in existence many millions of years ago
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Recent Examples of primordial
And its tracing of spatial distributions emerges from spying enormous bubblelike arrangements of galaxies thought to have formed from more primordial templates, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs).
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Will slaves not plow the earth beneath the lashing of their masters in these wastelands of man’s primordial independence?
—Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
So the cosmic dark ages aren’t entirely dark; those clouds of primordial neutral hydrogen are emitting tremendous amounts of 21-cm radiation.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.
—Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2025
Will slaves not plow the earth beneath the lashing of their masters in these wastelands of man’s primordial independence?
—Jonathon Sturgeon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
So the cosmic dark ages aren’t entirely dark; those clouds of primordial neutral hydrogen are emitting tremendous amounts of 21-cm radiation.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.
—Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primordial
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For example, the presence of clay minerals indicates past interactions between volcanic materials and water, hinting at the possibility of ancient habitable environments, according to the statement.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Casablanca has opened its first stand-alone store at 62 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and is shaking up the neighborhood with a colorful, youthful energy and interiors inspired by ancient Greece, Japan and the game of tennis.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
6 June 2025
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Houde said these mammoth animals are a primitive group of proboscideans ('elephantoids') from which modern elephants evolved.—
Joseph J. Kolb,
Fox News,
18 July 2017
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Many are primitive and remote, and don’t have restrooms or water.—
OregonLive.com,
OregonLive.com,
12 July 2017
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Landau went on to share how the urge to make things is primal and universal.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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The film tapped into humans' primal fear and became a social phenomenon in the U.S. and abroad, grossing over $470 million at the box office, adjusted for inflation.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
8 June 2025
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The limp is the primeval sign, in many cultural myth systems, of autochthony: humans born from the earth, parentless.—
Nicholas Dames,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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But in this primeval stage, nearly all of the potential Democratic candidates are discussing problems that have bedeviled their party for years: how to win back working-class voters, how aggressively to oppose President Trump and how to reach voters beyond the traditional news media.—
Lisa Lerer,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Since gold is nearly indestructible and has been recycled many times, much of the gold used today dates from prehistoric ages.—
David Szondy
June 07,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
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More fossils will be needed to know if the prehistoric waterwheels grew snap traps to enclose small aquatic invertebrates, like its modern counterparts, but the lineage was already present during a time when the world was warmer and wetter, and mammals were just beginning to get big.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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Koki Takagi | Via Reuters Taken from CNBC’s Daily Open, our international markets newsletter — Subscribe today Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Iran early Friday, escalating the simmering conflict between the two nations.—
Nur Hikmah Md Ali,
CNBC,
13 June 2025
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Smoke rises from a location allegedly targeted in Israel's wave of strikes on Tehran, Iran, in the early hours of June 13.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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“Primordial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primordial. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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