primarily

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The increase traces primarily to two sources: rising rates of diagnoses, and amendments in 2008 to the Americans with Disabilities Act that liberalized eligibility, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Along with the MVP candidate’s statistics in the offensive category, how about including the collective statistics of the opponents they are primarily assigned to guard?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Both El Niño and its counterpart La Niña are natural shifts in global weather patterns, primarily focused on Pacific Ocean temperatures, but they can impact the whole planet.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

A rising pension age also led to employment rates among affected age groups increasing by 10 percentage points, driven primarily by workers staying in their jobs for longer.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson