primary color

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Recent Examples of primary color According to the league’s press release, the Seattle team’s primary color will be emerald green, with cream as its secondary color. Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 New functional elements include modular benches done in vivid primary colors. R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025 Before the 2019 season, there was a rule that a player’s shoes must contain at least 51 percent of the team’s primary color. C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 20 May 2025 White and red are the primary colors of papal dress, with white representing purity and charity, and red representing compassion and sacrifice. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for primary color
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Noun
  • The secondary color might show as a thin slice in one eye or cover up to two-thirds of the iris in another.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
  • Colorado, a state whose shape is a simple rectangle, flipped from George W. Bush in 2004, while the secondary color of Davis’ choice of purple paint was created by combining two primary pigments — red and blue.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • There are six tertiary colors because of the mixing of the three primary colors with three secondary colors, and they are located between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel.
    Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Secondary and tertiary colors can also be complementary, like blue-greens and red-purples.
    Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024

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“Primary color.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primary%20color. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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