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Recent Examples of priming
Tatayana Yomary,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
So that’s my little tip: The pumps might take some priming.
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Jessica Hartshorn,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
After the priming, these last areas could be painted simply and almost simultaneously.
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Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
12 May 2025
Again, hinting that the physical movement is the important aspect of rhythmic priming.
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New Atlas,
9 Apr. 2025
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Bridging the gap between makeup and skincare, this priming serum is full of nourishing ingredients that provide TLC.
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Tatayana Yomary,
Essence,
21 Oct. 2025
So that’s my little tip: The pumps might take some priming.
—
Jessica Hartshorn,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
After the priming, these last areas could be painted simply and almost simultaneously.
—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
12 May 2025
Again, hinting that the physical movement is the important aspect of rhythmic priming.
—
New Atlas,
9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for priming
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New voices, new philosophies, new ways of teaching and new sets of data to parse through.
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At the same meeting, the school board will take up a vote to rewrite the state’s social studies curriculum, focusing more on Texas and US history and deemphasizing some teachings about global history and cultures.
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The goal scorer then took an artful first touch before drilling it home.
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC on June 12, when the company went public, that SpaceX planned to build pipelines and process its own propellant, and was looking into drilling its own natural gas.
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Valadao also said the cuts match eligibility standards for other federal assistance programs.
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The sheriff's office reopened portions of the investigation roughly three years ago, reviewing thousands of case files and conducting interviews with Mansfield with assistance from federal and state authorities.
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Center fielder Jakob Marsee put the Marlins ahead with an RBI single before second baseman Xavier Edwards drove in another run while grounding into a double play.
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In a recent interview, Jenny Bates Heaton, new Tedx speaker and a former Fortune 500 organizational development executive, shared how grounding individual and systemic decisions in authentic values can revolutionize the corporate ecosystem.
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One of its executives, Anderson, defined agentic treasury as a control system for the movement of money, software that does not merely advise a treasurer but acts, moving cash between accounts, settling invoices, hedging a currency exposure, all with little human prompting.
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The agent can run programs and complete requests without constant prompting.
Verb
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On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Britain is preparing for its seventh prime minister in a decade.
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Latvian intelligence is warning that Russia is preparing possible provocations against the Baltic states or Poland, including drones or any other hybrid attacks, in an effort to pressure NATO countries to stop supporting Ukraine.
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National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy will hold a news briefing Tuesday afternoon and speak about the Amtrak train crash that killed four and injured 150 people in Missouri, the agency announced.
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Most of the state, excluding parts of northeast Arkansas, is under marginal risk of severe weather, a level one out of five, through Wednesday evening, the briefing said.
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That could mean leading a project, taking on a stretch assignment, mentoring a newer employee, or working with another department.
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Beyond his entrepreneurial achievements, Holmes is deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of leaders.
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“Priming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priming. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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