primed

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Primed by Belly’s strained confrontation with Conrad, where she begs him for answers as to why he gave up on their relationship, the song at first sounds mournful.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

Primed by last week’s hearing, lawmakers will press hard on the conflict between Facebook’s profits and the safety of younger users.

From The Verge • Oct. 5, 2021

Primed by 1960s countercultural successes such as Last Year at Marienbad and Bonnie and Clyde, audiences were ripe for a challenge.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2018

Primed for paralysis The Guillain–Barré complication is just another wrinkle in an already formidable health problem: We do not have a true sense of how common Zika has become.

From Scientific American • Oct. 8, 2015

Primed with these, and knowing that the demand was extortionate, he went, alone, to Markham's office in Conduit Street.

From The Chestermarke Instinct by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)