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primeval

[prahy-mee-vuhl] / praɪˈmi vəl /


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With a single, in-block cam, one timing chain and two valves per cylinder, Godzilla is so primitive it’s practically primeval.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

For example, how much primeval forest has been cleared for an agricultural product or how the land was previously used.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

The primeval compulsion inside him that he can’t name flares.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2023

One critic, João Ribeiro — a prominent folklorist himself — called it “voluntarily barbarous, primeval, an assortment of disconnected fragments put together by a commentator incapable of any coordination.”

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Emptiness and disorder were the primeval, natural state of the cosmos, and there was always a nagging fear that at the end of time, disorder and void would reign once more.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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