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Recent Examples of primarily Under the new agreement, PIX11 will carry 30 Mets games each season from 2026 through 2028, including 25 regular season games primarily on Friday nights, and five spring training games. Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025 Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by a virus that primarily and most severely afflicts children. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 The airport primarily serves the northeastern corner of Assam, India. Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2025 These behemoths are primarily technology firms, which dominate the upper echelons of the index due to their growth in areas like AI, cloud computing, and digital services. Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for primarily
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Adverb
  • Excelsior Club was originally a house built in 1917.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Bureau of Labor Statistics today issued a revision of its employment numbers for the twelve months between April of 2024 and March of 2025, showing more than nine hundred thousand fewer new jobs than originally estimated.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The contributions mainly came on special teams.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This increase in unemployment was mainly due to relatively positive reasons, with job gains of 288,000 in the household survey and an increase of 436,000 in the labor force.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Kiko mostly bypassed the Hawaiian islands with its fiercest winds, as so many storms have before, and will instead fade off into the Pacific Ocean over the vast western end of the island chain that remains a mystery to many.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The upside, however, to sitting through this questionable season of what has been a mostly dreamy series?
    Vogue, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • This reflected higher capital expenditure in the period, Dunelm said, chiefly due to acquisition activity.
    Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This unusual chemical process is confined chiefly around the comet's head, not its tail.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The group advocates for improving the quality of life and ensuring safer streets in the predominantly immigrant neighborhood.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Carlos Castillo, superintendent of Fresno Unified School District, which has a large, predominantly Hispanic immigrant population.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The area where the shooting occurred is largely commercial, including vehicle service, recycling and trucking companies.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The play was high level, and both quarterbacks largely excelled.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The evolving advances and widespread adoption of generative AI have principally spurred this rising use of AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jhonatan’s story echoes that of many Colombian fighters, driven by a sense of duty, but shaped principally by economic insecurity that makes enlisting abroad a more viable and lucrative option.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Primarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primarily. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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