primary
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Both sides hash it out at meetings of the fiscal court of Mason County, the primary government body overseeing the development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Netflix gets a higher percentage of viewership on its platform for programs whose primary audience are young adults compared to other streamers, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who lost the primary for U.S.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
To Carville’s credit, he’s said that he would support Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive who won Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate, because his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, is a “clown.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Researchers also learned that the primary source of wound infection was not air, but contact with hands, instruments, and even drops from a surgeon's mouth and nose.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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He became the latest party House incumbent to be ousted in the primaries.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
This time, progressive and Black political organizations have largely united behind McKinney in a historically Black district, making the incumbent vulnerable to the anti-establishment mood sweeping Democratic primaries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
She listed some recent races where the progressive candidates had been outspent but won their primaries.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Maine runs what are called semi-open primaries, in which unaffiliated voters can choose to vote in either major party’s primary.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the final weeks of the primaries, Barack’s campaign began expanding my team to include a scheduler and a personal aide—Kristen Jarvis, a warmhearted former staffer from Barack’s U.S.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
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
According to the reporter, Manchin specifically said: "I've been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me… It's rough and tumble. We're used to that. Bring it on."
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2022
“I’ve been primaried my entire life. That would not be anything new for me. I’ve never run an election where I wasn’t primaried,” Mr. Manchin said.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
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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