primal
Example Sentences
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Verstappen would like F1 to change the rules, but that is because he has a fundamental, almost primal, objection to what they have done to the cars.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
"Motherhood can activate insecurity, comparison, and fear of exclusion in ways that feel almost primal."
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
Wrestling strips life’s complications down to primal conflicts, and few wrestlers embodied this approach as famously, and forebodingly, as Hulk Hogan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
But there’s a primal quality to the play’s conflicts that endows the work with an eternal vitality in the theater.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
With nothing left to say, Xenocrates just screamed primal rage into the woman’s face until his emo-nanites calmed him down.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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