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The company said Bylvay in biliary atresia failed to meet the primary goal of a late-stage clinical trial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The primary target is iceberg lettuce, but, months later, the official source of cyclospora remains unknown.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
If you live next to a theme park, goes the primary argument, what did you expect?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
While Platner inspired a large grassroots campaign of progressives and was able to muscle Mills out of the race long before primary day, it turned out he was too good to be true.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The impossible boy’s primary love language was not in doubt.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"You look at the kinds of individuals that are winning our recent primaries," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Only 18% to 25% of registered Democrats voted in each of the closed primaries for three contested House nominations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Three candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist whose upset election last year dramatically reshaped New York politics, prevailed in Democratic congressional primaries.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Swanson’s team also observed a faster vote count this year than in the 2022 and 2024 primaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
I’d voted for Barack many times before, in primaries and general elections, in state-level and national races, and this trip to the polls felt no different.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
One former lawmaker, Dallas’ Jason Villalba, knows what it’s like to be primaried by a GOP rival backed by insurgent groups.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
"I see the biggest upswing in the local races. Someone who is 65 years old, a farmer and county commissioner, he could easily be primaried by a younger cat using the technology."
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
In 2020, she primaried Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty for Ohio’s third district, which includes Columbus.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
Manchin brushed off the warning, saying, “I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
He will die a senator or be primaried and spend the rest of his life just hanging out around the Capitol.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2015
In 1998, the Working Families Party began testing the strategy: primarying the worst incumbents, endorsing the best and running third-party races only when it made sense.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2019
In Rhode Island, it is former secretary of state Matt Brown and Bernie Sanders-organizer Aaron Regunberg primarying Raimondo and her lieutenant governor.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
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