primitively

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primitively
Adverb
  • About 600 workers at the CDC remained fired Monday in conjunction with the federal government shutdown after hundreds more had originally been targeted, according to the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2883, which represents CDC employees in Atlanta.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The barrage of media coverage highlights their weight-loss functions, but formulations of these drugs were originally developed to help people with diabetes control their blood sugar.
    Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The escape was initially revealed on Sunday by Guatemala’s director of prisons, who said that prison officials had only detected the scheme — in which inmates may have slipped out one by one, or in pairs — after hearing rumors and checking inmates’ biometric data.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • But for all that lean bulkers profess online that their physical changes serve their health, many of them are primarily motivated by aesthetics.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The answers to these questions are the subject of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts of close to 100 works — primarily contemporary — by 62 Anishinaabe artists from 21 tribes from Michigan and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada.
    Jane L. Levere, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Primitively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primitively. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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