primordial soup

noun

: a mixture of organic molecules in evolutionary theory from which life on earth originated

Examples of primordial soup in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Or did her mutating account of events generate itself from a primordial soup of liquor, panic, guilt, and conjecture? —

Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024 Hard Science What the famous Miller-Urey experiment got wrong The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the building blocks of life could form in the primordial soup. —

Big Think, 24 June 2024 That blend of geography and history explains the primordial soup that gave birth to Peruvian cuisine. —

Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024 Yet, despite all of this association with poison and death, hydrogen cyanide (cyanide in gas form) is suspected to have played a major role in the primordial soup of life. —

Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for primordial soup

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First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of primordial soup was in 1962

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